Comfort, ye ministers of grace, Comfort, the people of your Lord

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Comfort, ye ministers of grace, Comfort, the people of your Lord

Author: Charles Wesley
Tune: REST (Bradbury)
Published in 95 hymnals

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1. Comfort, ye ministers of grace,
Comfort the people of the Lord.
Oh! upward bear the fallen race,
And cheer them by the gospel-word.

2. Accomplished is the legal war,
The mantle o’er your sins is spread;
Your God the punishment has borne,
Your God the debt has more than paid.

3. Hark, in the wilderness a cry,
A voice that loudly calls, “Prepare!”
Prepare your hearts, for God is nigh
And means to make his entrance there.

4. The Lord your God shall quickly come;
Sinners, repent, the call obey;
Open your hearts to make him room;
Ye desert-souls, prepare his way.

5. The Lord shall clear his way through all,
Whate’er obstructs, obstructs in vain;
The vale shall rise, the mountain fall,
Crooked be straight, and rugged plain.

6. The glory of the Lord displayed
Together all mankind shall view,
And what his mouth in truth has said,
His own almighty hand shall do.

Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #12b

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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 >

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