Come to the Feast

Representative Text

1 Come to the Feast, for Christ invites
and promises to feed,
'tis here His closest love unites
the members to their Head.
'Tis here He nourishes His own
with Living Bread from heav'n,
and makes Himself to mourners known,
and shows their sins forgiv'n.

2 Still in His instituted ways
He bids us ask the pow'r
the pard'ning or the hall'wing grace
and wait th'appointed hour.
'Tis not for us to set our God
a time His grace to give,
the benefit whene'er bestowed
we gladly should receive.

3 Who seek redemption through His love,
His love shall them redeem;
He cam self-emptied from above
that we might live through Him.
Expect we then the quick'ning word
who at His altar bow;
but if it be Thy pleasure, Lord
O let us find Thee now.

Source: Our Great Redeemer's Praise #419

Author: Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Come to the Feast for Christ invites
Title: Come to the Feast
Author: Charles Wesley
Meter: C.M. D
Language: English

Tune

KINGSFOLD

Thought by some scholars to date back to the Middle Ages, KINGSFOLD is a folk tune set to a variety of texts in England and Ireland. The tune was published in English Country Songs [sic: English County Songs] (1893), an anthology compiled by Lucy E. Broadwood and J. A. Fuller Maitland. After having…

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Our Great Redeemer's Praise #419

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