Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Come ye sinners poor and needy
Topic: Invitation
Writer: Charles Wesley
Composer: J Ingalls
Meter: 8s 7s and 4s or 8s and 7s with chorus
Tune: Invitation
Hymn Number: 659
Page Number: 264, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsCome, ye sin-ners, poor and need-y,
Weak and wounded, sick and sore:
Je-sus read-y stands to save you full of pit-y, love and power.
He is a-ble,
He is a-ble,
He is will-ing-doubt no more.
CHO.-Turn to the Lord, and seek sal-va-tion;
Come, the gos-pel call o-bey;
He is a-ble,
He is a-ble,
He is will-ing-doubt nor more,
Hearken to the in-vi-ta-tion;
O re-ceive his grace to-day.
Let not conscience make you linger,
Nor of fitness fondly dream:
All the fitness he requireth,
Is to feel your need of him.
This he gives you;
'Tis the Saviour's rising beam.
Come, you weary, heavy-laden,
Bruised and mangled by the fall:
If you tarry till you're better,
You will never come at all;
Not the righteous-
Sinners, Jesus came to call.
Agonizing in the garden,
Lo! your Saviour prostrate lies:
On the bloody tree behold him;
Hear him cry before he dies,
"It is finished!"
Sinners, will not this suffice?
Lo! the rising Lord ascending,
Pleads the virtue of his blood:
Venture on him, venture freely,
Let no other trust intrude.
None but Jesus
Can do helpless sinners good.