Thou universal Saviour, come,
To call both Jews and Gentiles home,
Thine ancient flock to exile driven,
With every nation under heaven;
A world of halting souls distrest
Assemble to the gospel-feast,
And then in every heart of man
Great King of saints, forever reign.
Thou universal Saviour come
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “In that day will I assemble her that halteth, and her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted: and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Zion, from henceforth even forever.”—[Mic.] iv. 6, 7. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 97.
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