Come, and Let Us Sweetly Join

lyricist: Charles Wesley, 1740
Composer: Orlando Gibbons, 1623

Come and let us sweet­ly join

Christ to praise in hymns di­vine;

Give we all with one ac­cord

Glory to our com­mon Lord.

Sing we then in Je­sus’ name

Now as yes­ter­day the same;

One in ev­ery time and place

Full for all of truth and grace.

We for Christ

our mas­ter

stand

Lights in a ben­ight­ed land:

We our dy­ing Lord con­fess;

We are Je­sus’ wit­ness­es.

Witnesses that Christ hath died

We with Him are cru­ci­fied;

Christ hath burst the bands of death

We His quick­en­ing Spir­it breathe.

Strive we

in af­fect­ion strive;

Let the pur­er flame re­vive

Such as in the mar­tyrs glowed

Dying cham­pi­ons for their God.

Make us all in Thee com­plete

Make us all for glo­ry meet

Meet to ap­pear be­fore Thy sight

Partners with the saints in light.

We

like them

may live and love;

Called we are their joys to prove

Saved with them from fu­ture wrath

Partners of like pre­cious faith.

Let the fruits of grace ab­ound;

Let in us Thy vow­els sound;

Faith

and love

and joy in­crease

Temperance and gen­tle­ness.

Plant in us Thy hum­ble mind;

Patient

pi­ti­ful

and kind

Meek and low­ly let us be

Full of good­ness

full of Thee.

Christ is now gone up on high

Where to Him our wish­es fly;

Sits at God’s right hand ab­ove;

There with Him we reign in love!

Come

Thou high and lof­ty Lord!

Lowly

meek

in­car­nate Word!

Humbly stoop to earth again

Come and vis­it abj­ect men!

Hands and hearts and voic­es raise

Sing as in the an­cient days;

Antedate the joys ab­ove

Celebrate the feast of love.

Jesus

dear ex­pect­ed Guest

Thou art bid­den to the feast

For Thy­self our hearts pre­pare

Come

and sit

and ban­quet there!

Jesus

we Thy pro­mise claim

We are met in Thy great name;

In the midst do Thou ap­pear

Manifest Thy pre­sence here!

Sanctify us

Lord

and bless

Breathe Thy Spir­it

give Thy peace

Thou Thy­self with­in us move

Make our feast a feast of love.

Call

O call us each by name

To the mar­riage of the Lamb;

Let us lean up­on Thy breast

Love be there our end­less feast!

Let us join (’tis God com­mands)

Let us join our hearts and hands

Help to gain our call­ing’s hope

Build we each the oth­er up.

God His bless­ings shall dis­pense

God shall crown His or­di­nance;

Meet in His ap­point­ed ways;

Nourish us with so­cial grace.

Let us then as breth­ren love

Faithfully His gifts im­prove

Carry on the ear­nest strife

Walk in ho­li­ness of life.

Still for­get the things be­hind

Follow Christ in heart and mind

Toward the mark un­wea­ried press

Seize the crown of right­eous­ness.

Plead we thus for faith alone

Faith which by our works is shown:

God it is who jus­ti­fies;

Only faith the grace ap­plies.

Active faith that lives with­in

Conquers earth

and hell

and sin

Sanctifies

and makes us whole

Forms the Sav­ior in the soul.

Let us for this faith con­tend

Sure sal­va­tion is its end:

Heaven al­rea­dy is be­gun

Everlasting life is won.

Only let us per­sev­ere

Till we see our Lord ap­pear

Never from the Rock re­move

Saved by faith

which works by love.

Partners of a glo­ri­ous hope

Lift your hearts and voic­es up

Jointly let us rise

and sing

Christ our pro­phet

priest

and king.

Monuments of Je­sus’ grace

Speak we by our lives His praise;

Walk in Him we have re­ceived

Show we not in vain be­lieved.

While we walk with God in light

God our hearts doth still unite;

Dearest fel­low­ship we prove

Fellowship in Je­sus’ love.

Sweetly each

with each com­bined

In the bonds of du­ty joined

Feels the cleans­ing blood ap­plied

Daily feels that Christ hath died.

Still

O Lord

our faith in­crease

Cleanse from all un­right­eous­ness

Thee the un­ho­ly can­not see;

Make

O make us meet for Thee!

Every vile af­fect­ion kill

Root out ev­ery seed of ill

Utterly abo­lish sin

Write Thy law of love with­in.

Hence may all our act­ions flow

Love the proof that Christ we know;

Mutual love the to­ken be

Lord

that we be­long to Thee

Love

Thine im­age

love im­part!

Stamp it on our face and heart!

Only love to us be giv­en!

Lord

we ask no oth­er heav­en.

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