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<h2>COME, AND LET US SWEETLY JOIN</h2>
<p align="center"><h3>&#8220;I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your Name.&#8221; 2 Samuel 22:50</h3></p>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_w_e_wesley_c.jpg" alt="Charles Wesley (1707-1788)" width="149.333333333333" height="198"></td>
<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_w_e_wesley_c.html" target="_blank">Charles Wesley</a>, 1740.
<p><em>Music:</em> &#8220;Canterbury,&#8221; adapted from <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_g_i_gibbons_o.html" target="_blank">Orlando Gibbons</a>, 1623 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_c_canterbu.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>Come and let us sweetly join,<br>
Christ to praise in hymns divine;<br>
Give we all with one accord<br>
Glory to our common Lord.</p>
<p>Sing we then in Jesus&#8217; Name,<br>
Now as yesterday the same;<br>
One in every time and place,<br>
Full for all of truth and grace.</p>
<p>We for Christ, our Master, stand,<br>
Lights in a benighted land:<br>
We our dying Lord confess;<br>
We are Jesus&#8217; witnesses.</p>
<p>Witnesses that Christ hath died,<br>
We with Him are crucified;<br>
Christ hath burst the bands of death,<br>
We His quickening Spirit breathe.</p>
<p>Strive we, in affection strive;<br>
Let the purer flame revive,<br>
Such as in the martyrs glowed,<br>
Dying champions for their God.</p>
<p>Make us all in Thee complete,<br>
Make us all for glory meet,<br>
Meet to appear before Thy sight,<br>
Partners with the saints in light.</p>
<p>We, like them, may live and love;<br>
Called we are their joys to prove,<br>
Saved with them from future wrath,<br>
Partners of like precious faith.</p>
<p>Let the fruits of grace abound;<br>
Let in us Thy vowels sound;<br>
Faith, and love, and joy increase,<br>
Temperance and gentleness.</p>
<p>Plant in us Thy humble mind;<br>
Patient, pitiful, and kind,<br>
Meek and lowly let us be,<br>
Full of goodness, full of Thee.</p>
<p>Christ is now gone up on high,<br>
Where to Him our wishes fly;<br>
Sits at God&#8217;s right hand above;<br>
There with Him we reign in love!</p>
<p>Come, Thou high and lofty Lord!<br>
Lowly, meek, incarnate Word!<br>
Humbly stoop to earth again,<br>
Come and visit abject men!</p>
<p>Hands and hearts and voices raise,<br>
Sing as in the ancient days;<br>
Antedate the joys above,<br>
Celebrate the feast of love.</p>
<p>Jesus, dear expected guest,<br>
Thou art bidden to the feast,<br>
For Thyself our hearts prepare,<br>
Come, and sit, and banquet there!</p>
<p>Jesus, we Thy promise claim,<br>
We are met in Thy great Name;<br>
In the midst do Thou appear,<br>
Manifest Thy presence here!</p>
<p>Sanctify us, Lord, and bless,<br>
Breathe Thy Spirit, give Thy peace,<br>
Thou Thyself within us move,<br>
Make our feast a feast of love.</p>
<p>Call, O call us each by name,<br>
To the marriage of the Lamb;<br>
Let us lean upon Thy breast,<br>
Love be there our endless feast!</p>
<p>Let us join, (&#8217;tis God commands)<br>
Let us join our hearts and hands<br>
Help to gain our calling&#8217;s hope,<br>
Build we each the other up.</p>
<p>God His blessings shall dispense,<br>
God shall crown His ordinance;<br>
Meet in His appointed ways;<br>
Nourish us with social grace.</p>
<p>Let us then as brethren love,<br>
Faithfully His gifts improve,<br>
Carry on the earnest strife,<br>
Walk in holiness of life.</p>
<p>Still forget the things behind,<br>
Follow Christ in heart and mind,<br>
Toward the mark unwearied press,<br>
Seize the crown of righteousness.</p>
<p>Plead we thus for faith alone,<br>
Faith which by our works is shown:<br>
God it is Who justifies;<br>
Only faith the grace applies.</p>
<p>Active faith that lives within,<br>
Conquers earth, and hell, and sin,<br>
Sanctifies, and makes us whole,<br>
Forms the Savior in the soul.</p>
<p>Let us for this faith contend,<br>
Sure salvation is its end:<br>
Heaven already is begun,<br>
Everlasting life is won.</p>
<p>Only let us persevere,<br>
Till we see our Lord appear,<br>
Never from the Rock remove,<br>
Saved by faith, which works by love.</p>
<p>Partners of a glorious hope,<br>
Lift your hearts and voices up,<br>
Jointly let us rise, and sing<br>
Christ our Prophet, Priest, and King.</p>
<p>Monuments of Jesus&#8217; grace,<br>
Speak we by our lives His praise;<br>
Walk in Him we have received,<br>
Show we not in vain believed.</p>
<p>While we walk with God in light,<br>
God our hearts doth still unite;<br>
Dearest fellowship we prove,<br>
Fellowship in Jesus&#8217; love.</p>
<p>Sweetly each, with each combined,<br>
In the bonds of duty joined,<br>
Feels the cleansing blood applied,<br>
Daily feels that Christ hath died.</p>
<p>Still, O Lord, our faith increase,<br>
Cleanse from all unrighteousness,<br>
Thee the unholy cannot see;<br>
Make, O make us meet for Thee!</p>
<p>Every vile affection kill,<br>
Root out every seed of ill,<br>
Utterly abolish sin,<br>
Write Thy law of love within.</p>
<p>Hence may all our actions flow,<br>
Love the proof that Christ we know;<br>
Mutual love the token be,<br>
Lord, that we belong to Thee</p>
<p>Love, Thine image, love impart!<br>
Stamp it on our face and heart!<br>
Only love to us be given!<br>
Lord, we ask no other heaven.</p>
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