Sinners, obey the gospel-word! <br />Haste to the supper of my Lord! <br />Be wise to know your gracious day; <br />All things are ready, come away! <br /> <br />Ready the Father is to own <br />And kiss his late-returning son; <br />Ready your loving Saviour stands, <br />And spreads for you his bleeding hands. <br /> <br />Ready the Spirit of his love <br />Just now the stony to remove, <br />To apply, and witness with the blood, <br />And wash and seal the sons of God. <br /> <br />Ready for you the angels wait, <br />To triumph in your blest estate; <br />Tuning their harps, they long to praise <br />The wonders of redeeming grace. <br /> <br />The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost <br />Is ready, with their shining host: <br />All heaven is ready to resound, <br />'The dead's alive! the lost is found!' <br /> <br />Come then, ye sinners, to your Lord, <br />In Christ to paradise restored; <br />His proffered benefits embrace, <br />The plenitude of gospel grace: <br /> <br />A pardon written with his blood, <br />The favour and the peace of God; <br />The seeing eye, the feeling sense, <br />The mystic joys of penitence; <br /> <br />The godly grief, the pleasing smart, <br />The meltings of a broken heart, <br />The tears that tell your sins forgiven, <br />The sighs that waft your souls to heaven; <br /> <br />The guiltless shame, the sweet distress, <br />The unutterable tenderness, <br />The genuine, meek humility, <br />The wonder, 'Why such love to me?' <br /> <br />The o'erwhelming power of saving grace, <br />The sight that veils the seraph's face; <br />The speechless awe that dares not move, <br />And all the silent heaven of love.<br /><br />Charles Wesley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sinners-obey-the-gospel-word/
