Details
Hymnal / album
Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2
Publisher
Farley
Copyright
Public Domain (Disclaimer: This is not legal advice. The publication year, if correct, suggests that this work may be in public domain in the U.S..)
Notes
Originally titled “Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.”—[Hosea] vi. 1. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). 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 76.
Scripture connections
Expository
This passage is the main idea of the songAllusions
Verses this song echoes or alludes toLyrics
Come, let us to the Lord return, (Hosea 6:1)
Who now beneath his judgments droop:
Torn by his anger if we mourn, (Hosea 6:1)
His healing love will bind us up: (Hosea 6:1)
Who rais’d our surety from the dead, (Heb. 7:22)
Our twice-dead souls will quickly raise (Hosea 6:2)
To walk before our God, and lead (Hosea 6:2, Gen. 17:1, Rom. 6:4)
The sinless life of perfect grace. (I John 3:6, I John 5:18, Matt. 5:48)