Sinner, come down at Jesus’ call

Verse 1
Sinner, come down at Jesus’ call,
Sink into thy own nothingness,
Feel the full misery of thy fall,
Thy vile apostacy confess,
Jesus with lowly faith receive,
Who stoops with sinful men to live.

Verse 2
Humility prepares his way,
His saving power the humble feel:
Jesus, will lodge with thee to day,
Will every day with sinners dwell,
Nor visit as a transient Guest,
But be their everlasting Feast.

Verse 3
He for no invitation stays,
But freely of his own accord
Comes with the kingdom of his grace,
And favour shews as sovereign Lord;
His love, for every sinner free,
Precedes all good desire in thee.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He said unto him, Zaccheus, make haste, and come down, for to day I must abide at thy house.'—[Luke 19,] v. 5.” 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 263.
Publishing: Public Domain