The Sinner — Warning and Invitation

Come to the living waters, come!

No. 399
Metre C. M.
Tune HARVEY'S CHANT.
Words Anon.
Music William B. Bradbury.
Key G major
Time 3/2
4 stanzas

Words

Come to the living waters, come!Obey your Maker's call;Return, ye weary wanderers, home;My grace is free for all.

Nothing ye in exchange shall give;Leave all you have behind;Freely the gift of God receive,And peace in Jesus find.

I bid you all my goodness prove;My promises are free:Come, taste the manna of my love,Delight your souls in me.

Your willing ear and heart incline,My words in faith receive;Quickened, your souls by faith divine,Eternal life shall live.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «THE SINNER—WARNING AND INVITATION.»; hymn number «399» (large), tune name «HARVEY'S CHANT. C. M.» centred over the music (condensed capitals and small capitals), «WILLIAM B. BRADBURY.» at the right (capitals and small capitals); printed vertically in the right margin beside system 2, «By per. Biglow & Main.». Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves, one line per system, with «1.» before «Come» («liv - ing», «wa - ters,», «O - bey», «Mak - er's» hyphenated under the notes; «Re-» at the end of system 1 and «turn,» at the start of system 2; «weary wanderers,» printed whole under four quarter notes). The music sets the last line twice, and the interlinear stanza prints it twice: «My grace is free for all, My grace is free for all.»; the text stanzas print only the four verse lines. Stanzas 2–4 are printed as text in the left column below the music, under the reference line «175, 117, 114.» in italics (= may also be sung to the tunes of hymns 175, 117 or 114). «Anon.» in italics after stanza 4. The stanza numbers of the text stanzas are printed without a full stop («2 Nothing»); they are numbered «2.» here like stanza 1. The print sets a thin space before «;», «:» and «!» («come !», «call ;», «home ;», «give ;», «prove ;»); it is closed up here. The printer's curly apostrophe is written straight («Maker's»). Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's («Quickened,»). Lines 2 and 4 of each stanza are indented in the print.