Come all to Christ, who all receives

Verse 1
Come all to Christ, who all receives,
Instruction to th’ unlearnèd gives,
Supplies our every need,
Makes the distemper’d sinner whole,
And satisfies the hungry soul
With true immortal bread.

Verse 2
Happy the steward of his grace,
Preacher of joy and righteousness
The kingdom from above,
Who thro’ the power of Jesus’ word
Sees sinsick souls to health restor’d,
And perfected in love.

Verse 3
Happy who finds his whole employ,
To serve their faith, and feed their joy,
Till entring into rest
Up from this wilderness they rise,
Regain their country in the skies,
And God’s eternal feast.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The people followed him, and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.'—[Luke 9,] v. 11.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 179.
Publishing: Public Domain