Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: Come welcome friends approach your God
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 255
Page Number: 128, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsCOME, welcome, friends, approach your God,
With new melodious songs;
Come, render to almighty grace,
The tribute of your tongues.
So strange, so boundless was the love,
That pitied dying men,
The Father sent his gracious Son,
To give them life again.
See, Saviour, see these willing souls--
The purchase of thy blood:
They seek a home within thy church,
The place of thine abode.
Welcome, thrice welcome, brethren, friends
To this, his sacred rest:
Confide your interests to his care,
And lean upon his breast.
Be your profession still adorned
With ornaments of grace;
Let truth and meekness, prayer and praise,
Shine forth in all your ways.
God will approve the deeds of such
As do his truth adorn;
And bring them to a rich reward--
The resurrection morn.
Hail! brethren, hail! your Father's house
Is blest with plenteous store:
Here Jesus stands with bounteous grace
To welcome all the poor.
BENEDICTION.
Blest be the everlasting God!
And blest his children dear!
The purchase of our Saviour's blood,
We gladly welcome here.