Who to his Saviour’s messengers
An hospitable welcom gives,
Receives not angels unawares,
But Christ and God himself receives:
Come then, and bring the Crucified,
Come all who preach his pardning word,
My house, my arms I open wide,
My heart, to entertain your Lord.
Who to His Saviour’s messengers
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He that receiveth you receiveth me; and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me.’—[Matt. 10,] v. 40.” 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 243.
Publishing: Public Domain