Forth the zealous servants went,
And preach’d the welcom word;
Sinners heard with glad consent,
And ran to meet their Lord,
Gentiles, Jews obey’d the call,
High and low, a countless croud,
Rush’d into the nuptial-hall,
And fill’d the church of God.
Forth the zealous servants went
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘So those servants went out into the highways &c.’—[Matt. 22,] v. 10.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 350.
Publishing: Public Domain