Then let us go, and take, and eat

Verse 1
Then let us go, and take, and eat
The heavenly everlasting meat
For fainting souls prepar’d;
Fed with the living bread divine
Discern we in the sacred sign
The body of the Lord.

Verse 2
The instruments that bruis’d him so
Were broke and scatter’d long ago,
The flames extinguish’d were,
But Jesu’s death is ever new,
He whom in ages past they slew
Doth still as slain appear.

Verse 3
Th’ oblation sends as sweet a smell,
Ev’n now it pleases God as well
As when it first was made,
The blood doth now as freely flow,
As when his side receiv’d the blow
That shew’d him newly dead.

Verse 4
Then let our faith adore the Lamb
To day as yesterday the same,
In thy great offering join,
Partake the sacrificial food,
And eat thy flesh and drink thy blood,
And live for ever thine.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in a hymnal jointly credited to John and Charles Wesley; it is likely though not fully certain that Charles wrote it. Introduced in Hymns on the Lord's Supper, published by John and Charles Wesley (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1745).Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 3 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 217.
Publishing: Public Domain