Ye followers of the beeding Lamb

Verse 1
Ye followers of the bleeding Lamb,
Before your Lord appear,
On you we call in Jesu’s name,
Be all in spirit here.

Verse 2
Jesus with us assembled is,
Him in the midst we feel,
Come share with us the glorious bliss,
The joy unspeakable.

Verse 3
Come all the members far and near,
Whoe’er to Christ are join’d,
Jesus our common head is here,
Ye cannot stay behind.

Verse 4
The body with the head is nigh:
Let every faithful soul,
Let every joint its strength supply
To edify the whole.

Verse 5
’Tis done: thro’ faith our hands we join,
In Jesu’s love we meet,
And cloath’d with righteousness divine
The body is compleat.

Verse 6
Then let us all at once aspire,
Our common Saviour praise,
And higher raise our hearts, and higher,
In honour of his grace:

Verse 7
His grace which hath salvation brought,
And rais’d us from our fall,
His grace which came to us unsought,
And comes unsought to all.

Verse 8
God of all grace, thy saving name
We thankfully confess;
Let all the world adore the Lamb,
The general blessing bless.

Verse 9
Ye that in strength divine excel,
Ye first-born church above,
Adore the depth unsearchable
Of all-redeeming love.

Verse 10
’Till we like you behold his face,
Angels, on you we call,
Forever, and forever praise
The Lamb, that died for all.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in Hymns and Sacred Poems Vol. 2, published by Charles Wesley (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1749). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 5 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 472.
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