The Heavenly Guest Invited

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1 Savior of all, to thee we bow,
And own thee faithful to thy word;
We hear thy voice, and open now,
Our hearts to entertain our Lord.

Refrain:
Savior of all, to thee we bow,
And own thee faithful to thy word,
We hear thy voice, and open now,
Our hearts to entertain our Lord.

2 Come in, come in, thou heavenly guest,
Delight in what thyself hast given;
On thy own gifts and graces feast,
And make the contrite heart thy heaven. [Refrain]

3 Beneath thy shadow let us sit;
Call us thy friends, and love, and bride,
And bid us freely drink and eat
Thy dainties, and be satisfied. [Refrain]

Source: Wondrous Love: A Collection of Songs and Services for Sunday Schools #90

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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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First Line: Savior of all, to Thee we bow
Title: The Heavenly Guest Invited
Author: Charles Wesley
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
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Amen to all that God hath said. C. Wesley. [Divine Holiness, and Human Depravity.] Appeared in Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742, in 36 stanzas of 4 lines, in three parts, and entitled "Unto the Angel of the Church of the Laodiceans." In 1780, J. Wesley compiled the following centos therefrom for the Wesleyan Hymn Book:—
1. God of unspotted purity. Composed of stanzas iii., iv., v., vi., viii.-xi. of Part i.
2. 0 let us our own works forsake, of stanzas iii., viii., ix., x., of Part ii.
3. Saviour of all, to Thee we bow. Composed of stanzas i.-vi. of Part iii.
All these centos have passed into numerous hymnals in Great Britain and America. Original text in Poetical Works, 1868-72, vol. ii. p. 358.

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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LES COMANDEMENS DE DIEU

LES COMMANDEMENS (French for "the commandments"), a rich and graceful tune in the Hypo-Ionian mode (major), was used in the Genevan Psalter (1547) for the Decalogue and for Psalm 140, and later in British psalters and in the Lutheran tradition. The first setting in the Psalter Hymnal derives from Cl…

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