Lyricist: Joseph Hart
Composer: Unknown, arrangement by Mike Rogers (2018)
This hymn by Joseph Hart (1712-1768) was first published in his collection Hymns, &c., Composed on Various Subjects (1759), in seven stanzas of six lines, without music. Alterations by other editors in other collections have been numerous. Modern hymnals most often pair the text with the early American shape-note tune RESTORATION. This tune was first printed in William Walker’s Southern Harmony (1835) without the chorus, and paired with “Mercy, O thou Son of David” by John Newton.
The connection to Hart’s text appeared in print much later. In Joseph Hillman’s The Revivalist (1868), On pages, 84-85, are multiple tunes and texts, all of which are interchangeable. It includes Hart’s text and the RESTORATION tune, here called I WILL ARISE, although they are not paired together. In Philip Bliss’ Gospel Songs (1874), the refrain “I will arise,” set to RESTORATION, was paired with an anonymous text of unknown origins, “Far, far away from my loving Father.” This printing includes a note indicating “This chorus may be sung . . . as a response to ‘Come, ye sinners, poor and needy.’”
Hart’s text with the refrain “I will arise” and the RESTORATION tune were finally paired together in Charlie D. Tillman’s Revival No. 3 (1899). This has become the most recognizable setting for Hart’s text.
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~Lyrics~
1. Come, ye sinners, poor and needy,
Weak and wounded, sick and sore;
Jesus ready stands to save you,
Full of pity, love, and pow’r.
[CHROUS]
I will arise and go to Jesus,
He will embrace me in His arms;
In the arms of my dear Savior,
Oh, there are ten thousand charms.
2. Come, ye thirsty, come and welcome,
God’s free bounty glorify;
True belief and true repentance,
Ev’ry grace that brings you nigh.
[CHORUS]
3. Come, ye weary, heavyladen,
Bruised and broken, full of sin;
If you tarry till you’re better,
You may never enter in.
[CHORUS]
4. View Him prostrate in the garden,
On the ground your Maker lies;
On the bloody tree behold Him,
Sinner, will not this suffice?
[CHORUS]
5. Lo, th’incarnate God ascended,
Pleads the merit of His blood;
Venture on Him, venture wholly,
Let no other trust intrude.
[CHORUS]
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