To the broad frequented ways
With my commission go,
Tidings glad of pardning grace
To wandring sinners show:
Every soul may be my guest:
Bring in every soul ye find,
Press them to the gospel-feast,
A feast for all mankind.
To the broad frequented ways
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.’—[Matt. 22,] v. 9.” 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