All ye that pass by. C. Wesley. [Invitation.] This “Invitation to Sinners " appeared in the Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1741), vol. i., No. xlii., in 7 stanzas of 6 lines. In 1760 it was included, with the omission of st. iv., in M. Madan's Psalms & Hymns, No. xxi.; again in the collections of De Courcy, B. Conyers, and others in the Church of England; Williams and Boden, and others amongst the Congregationalists; and in the collections of various denominations: but not until the publication of the Supplement to the Wesleyan Hymn Book in 1830 was it added to that work, and thereby officially recognised by the Wesleyan Conference. It is retained in the revised ed. of the Wesleyan Hymn Book, 1875, and is in extensive use in Great Britain and America. Original text in Poetical Works, 1868-72, vol. iv. p. 371.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >
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