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The poetical works of John and Charles Wesley

Wesley, Charles (1707-1788)

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VOLUME I.
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VOLUME II.
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VOLUME III.
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HYMNS ON God's Everlasting Love.
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HYMNS ON God's Everlasting Love [Second series].
  
AN ELEGY On the Death of Robert Jones, Esq.; OF FONMON-CASTLE in Glamorganshire, SOUTH-WALES.
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ORIGINAL POEMS, EXTRACTED FROM THE THIRD VOLUME OF A COLLECTION OF MORAL AND SACRED POEMS, PUBLISHED BY JOHN WESLEY, M. A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford.
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HYMNS ON THE LORD's SUPPER.
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I. As it is a Memorial of the Sufferings and Death of Christ.
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II. As it is a Sign and a Means of Grace.
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III. The Sacrament a Pledge of Heaven.
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IV. The Holy Eucharist as it implies a Sacrifice.
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V. Concerning the Sacrifice of our Persons.
 CXXVIII. 
HYMN CXXVIII.
 CXXIX. 
HYMN CXXIX.
 CXXX. 
HYMN CXXX.
 CXXXI. 
HYMN CXXXI.
 CXXXII. 
HYMN CXXXII.
 CXXXIII. 
HYMN CXXXIII.
 CXXXIV. 
HYMN CXXXIV.
 CXXXV. 
HYMN CXXXV.
 CXXXVI. 
HYMN CXXXVI.
 CXXXVII. 
HYMN CXXXVII.
 CXXXVIII. 
HYMN CXXXVIII.
 CXXXIX. 
HYMN CXXXIX.
 CXL. 
HYMN CXL.
 CXLI. 
HYMN CXLI.
 CXLII. 
HYMN CXLII.
 CXLIII. 
HYMN CXLIII.
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HYMN CXLIV.
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HYMN CXLV.
 CXLVI. 
HYMN CXLVI.
 CXLVII. 
HYMN CXLVII.
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HYMN CXLVIII.
 CXLIX. 
HYMN CXLIX.
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HYMN CL.
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HYMN CLI.
 CLII. 
HYMN CLII.
 CLIII. 
HYMN CLIII.
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HYMN CLIV.
 CLV. 
HYMN CLV.
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HYMN CLVI.
 CLVII. 
HYMN CLVII.
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VI. After the Sacrament.
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Gloria Patri, &c. OR HYMNS TO THE TRINITY.
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GRACES.
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VOLUME IV.
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VOLUME V.
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VOLUME VI.
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VOLUME VII.
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VOLUME VIII.
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VOLUME IX.
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VOLUME X.
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VOLUME XI.
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VOLUME XII.
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VOLUME XIII.

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CLXIII. THE SAME.

Hymn 3.

[Ah! foolish world, forbear]

Ah! foolish world, forbear
Thine unavailing pain,
Nor needlessly declare
Our hope, and labour vain:
Tell us no more, we cannot know
On earth the heavenly powers,
Or taste the glorious bliss below,
Or feel, that God is ours.
So ignorant of God,
In sin brought up, and born,
Ye fools, be not so proud,
Suspend your idle scorn:
For us who have received our sight
Ye fain would judges be,
And make us think, there is no light,
Because you cannot see.
The same in your esteem,
Falsehood and truth ye join,
The wild pretender's dream,
And real work Divine:
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Between the substance, and the show
No difference you can find,
For colours all, full well we know,
Are equal to the blind.
Wherefore from us depart,
And to each other tell
“We cannot on our heart
The written pardon feel:”
A stranger to the living Bread
Ye may beguile, and cheat,
But us you never can persuade
That honey is not sweet.
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