Wesley Corpus

“It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty...” Source: Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), Part I Author: Charles Wesley (attributed) --- Come thou, my dear Redeemer, come, Let me my life resign, O take thy ransom’d servant home, And make me wholly thine. Fully redeem’d I fain would rise In soul and body free, And mount to meet thee in the skies, And ever reign with thee. “It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto thee, O Lord, Holy Father, almighty, everlasting God.”42 Meet and right it is to sing Glory to our God and King, Meet in every time, and place, Right to shew forth all thy praise. Sing we now in duty bound, Echo the triumphant sound, Publish it thro’ earth abroad, Praise the everlasting God. Praises here to thee we give, Here our open thanks receive, Holy Father, sovereign Lord, Always, every where ador’d. 42The quote is from the Eucharistic liturgy in the BCP. Hymn appeared first in George Whitefield, Divine Melody; or, a Help to Devotion (London: W. Rayner, 1739), 13-14, ascribed to Charles Wesley; and in The Conduct and Doctrine of the Reverend Mr. Whitefield Vidicated (London: A. Dodd, 1739), 35.