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''Ho, everyone that thirsts, draw nigh'' is a hymn by [[Charles Wesley]], first published as the first hymn (on pages 1-6) in [[John Wesley|John]] and Charles Wesley's ''Hymns and Sacred Poems'', London: 1740. In that collection, it is headed 'The Fifty Fifth Chapter of Isaiah'. | |||
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{{Vs|1}} Ho! Every one that thirsts, draw nigh: | |||
('Tis God invites the fallen race) | |||
Mercy and free salvation buy; | |||
Buy wine, and milk, and gospel grace. | |||
{{ | {{Vs|2}} Come to the living waters, come! | ||
Sinners, obey your Maker's call; | |||
Return, ye weary wanderers, home, | |||
And find my grace is free for all. | |||
| | {{Vs|3}} See from the rock a fountain rise! | ||
For you in healing streams it rolls: | |||
Money ye need not bring, nor price, | |||
Ye lab'ring, burthen'd, sin-sick souls. | |||
{{Vs|4}} Nothing ye in exchange shall give; | |||
{{ | Leave all you have and are behind; | ||
Frankly the gift of God receive, | |||
Pardon, and peace in Jesus find. | |||
|} | {{Vs|5}} Why seek ye that which is not bread, | ||
Nor can your hungry souls sustain? | |||
On ashes, husks, and air ye feed, | |||
You spend your little all in vain. | |||
{{Vs|6}} In search of empty joys below, | |||
Ye toil with unavailing strife: | |||
Whither, ah whither would you go? | |||
I have the words of endless life. | |||
{{Vs|7}} Hearken to me with earnest care, | |||
And freely eat substantial food; | |||
The sweetness of my mercy share, | |||
And taste that I alone am good. | |||
{{Vs|8}} I bid you all my goodness prove, | |||
My promises for all are free: | |||
Come taste the manna of my love, | |||
And let your soul delight in me.}} | |||
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{{Vs|9}} Your willing ear and heart incline, | |||
My words believingly receive; | |||
Quicken'd your soul, by faith divine, | |||
An everlasting life shall live. | |||
{{Vs|10}} You for my own I then shall take, | |||
Shall surely seal you for my own, | |||
My covenant of mercy make, | |||
And 'stablish it in David's Son. | |||
{{Vs|11}} A faithful witness of my grace, | |||
Him have I to the people given, | |||
To teach a sinful world my ways, | |||
And lead and train them up for heaven. | |||
{{Vs|12}} Son of my love, behold, to thee | |||
From all eternity I give | |||
Sinners who to thy wounds will flee; | |||
The soul that chuseth life shall live. | |||
{{Vs|13}} Nations, whom once thou didst not own, | |||
Thou thine inheritance shalt call; | |||
Nations who knew not thee shall run, | |||
And hail the God that died for all. | |||
{{Vs|14}} For I, the holy God, and true, | |||
To glorify thy name have sworn: | |||
And lo! My faithfulness I shew; | |||
And lo! To thee the Gentiles turn. | |||
{{Vs|15}} Seek ye the Lord with timely care, | |||
Ye servants of uncancel’d sin, | |||
While all that seek may find him near | |||
With open arms to take them in. | |||
{{Vs|16}} His evil let the sinner leave, | |||
In bitterness of spirit mourn, | |||
Death's sentence in himself receive, | |||
And to a gracious God return.}} | |||
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{{Vs|17}} Surely our God will bid him live, | |||
Will with the arms of love embrace; | |||
Freely, abundantly forgive, | |||
And shew him all his depths of grace. | |||
{{Vs|18}} For thus the mighty God hath said, | |||
My ways, and thoughts ye cannot scan; | |||
Ye cannot, whom my hands have made, | |||
Your infinite Creator span. | |||
{{Vs|19}} Me will ye mete with reason's line? | |||
Or teach my grace how far to move? | |||
Fathom my mercy's deep design, | |||
My heighth, and breadth, and length of love! | |||
{{Vs|20}} Far as the heavens that earth surpass, | |||
Far as my throne those nether skies, | |||
My ways of love, and thoughts of grace, | |||
Beyond your low conceptions rise. | |||
{{Vs|21}} For as the snow from heaven comes down, | |||
The first and latter rains distill, | |||
The earth with fruitfulness to crown, | |||
Man's heart with food and joy to fill. | |||
{{Vs|22}} As no return the shower can know, | |||
But falls a thirsty land to chear, | |||
But executes its charge below, | |||
While plenty decks the smiling year. | |||
{{Vs|23}} So shall the word my lips have spoke, | |||
Accomplish that which I ordain; | |||
My word I never will revoke; | |||
My word is not gone forth in vain. | |||
{{Vs|24}} In my redeeming work employ'd, | |||
And sent my pleasure to fulfill, | |||
Vain it shall not return, and void, | |||
But prosper, and perform my will.}} | |||
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{{Vs|25}} With me is plenteous mercy found, | |||
Redemption free for all to know; | |||
And where your sin doth most abound, | |||
My more abundant grace shall flow. | |||
{{Vs|26}} From guilt and pain ye shall be freed, | |||
From the black dungeon of despair, | |||
Into my heavenly kingdom led, | |||
And reap eternal pleasures there. | |||
{{Vs|27}} All ye that in my word believe, | |||
Shall see my love in Jesu's face; | |||
The peace and joy of faith receive, | |||
And triumph in my saving grace. | |||
{{Vs|28}} The trees shall clap their hands and sing, | |||
Mountains and hills their voices raise; | |||
All the new heavens and earth shall ring | |||
With Jesus their Creator's praise. | |||
{{Vs|29}} Where thorns deform'd the barren ground, | |||
Where noisome weeds the soul o'erspread, | |||
There shall the fruits of grace abound, | |||
And second nature lift her head. | |||
{{Vs|30}} The trees of God shall deck the soil, | |||
The plants of righteousness arise; | |||
The Lord shall on his garden smile, | |||
His late-returning paradise. | |||
{{Vs|31}} The earth, in token of his grace, | |||
Shall spread the odour of his fame, | |||
And everlasting trophies raise, | |||
To glorify the Saviour's name.}} | |||
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==External links == | ==External links == | ||
'' | *[https://divinity.duke.edu/sites/divinity.duke.edu/files/documents/cswt/05_Hymns_and_Sacred_Poems_%281740%29.pdf ''Hymns and Sacred Poems'' (1740), description and transcription by the Duke Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition] | ||
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Revision as of 14:49, 20 March 2015
General information
Ho, everyone that thirsts, draw nigh is a hymn by Charles Wesley, first published as the first hymn (on pages 1-6) in John and Charles Wesley's Hymns and Sacred Poems, London: 1740. In that collection, it is headed 'The Fifty Fifth Chapter of Isaiah'.
Settings by composers
- Benjamin Milgrove — Ho. Everyone that thirsts draw nigh English STB
- Zechariah Whelpdale — Ho everyone that thirsts, draw nigh English SATB
Text and translations
English text 1 Ho! Every one that thirsts, draw nigh: |
9 Your willing ear and heart incline, |
17 Surely our God will bid him live, |
25 With me is plenteous mercy found, |