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The poetical works of John and Charles Wesley

Wesley, Charles (1707-1788)

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HYMNS FOR A PROTESTANT

HYMNS FOR New-Year's-Day.

HYMNS Occasioned by the EARTHQUAKE, March 8, 1750.

AN EPISTLE To the Reverend Mr. JOHN WESLEY,

AN EPISTLE TO THE REVEREND MR. GEORGE WHITEFIELD

HYMNS FOR THE YEAR 1756, PARTICULARLY FOR THE Fast-Day, FEBRUARY 6.

Hymns for the Preachers among the Methodists (so called).

HYMNS OF INTERCESSION FOR All MANKIND.

HYMNS ON The Expected Invasion, 1759, AND FOR The Thanksgiving Day, November 20, 1759.

FUNERAL HYMNS. [SECOND SERIES.]

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FUNERAL HYMNS. THIRD SERIES. MOST OF WHICH WERE NOT PUBLISHED DURING THE AUTHOR'S LIFE.

ON THE DEATH OF MR. THOMAS HOGG, JUNE 29, 1750.

ON THE DEATH OF LADY HOTHAM, JUNE 30, 1756.

ON THE DEATH OF DR. MIDDLETON, DECEMBER 16, 1760.

ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. WILLIAM GRIMSHAW.

ON THE DEATH OF MR. JOHN MATTHEWS, DECEMBER 28, 1764.

AN HYMN ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. GEORGE WHITEFIELD.

ON THE DEATH OF MR. JOHN BOULT, NOVEMBER 1, 1771, AGED SEVENTY-EIGHT.

ON THE DEATH OF MRS. HANNAH DEWAL.

ON THE DEATH OF MRS. ELIZABETH BLACKWELL, MARCH 27, 1772.

ON BEING DESIRED TO WRITE AN ELEGY FOR MRS. HANNAH BUTTS.

ON THE DEATH OF MRS. HANNAH BUTTS.

ON THE DEATH OF MRS. ANNE DAVIS, NOVEMBER 5, 1775.

ON THE DEATH OF PRUDENCE BOX, JANUARY 9, 1778, AGED THIRTY-EIGHT.

ON THE DEATH OF MRS. ELIZABETH VIGOR.

ON THE DEATH OF MRS. DOROTHY HARDY.

ON THE DEATH OF DR. BOYCE, FEBRUARY 7, 1779.

ON THE DEATH OF MR. THOMAS WALLER, IN HIS THIRTIETH YEAR, MAY 11, 1781.

ON THE DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM KINGSBURY, FEBRUARY 8, 1782.

ON THE DEATH OF MR. THOMAS LEWIS, APRIL, 1782.

PRAYER FOR MR. BLACKWELL, DEPARTING APRIL 21, 1782.

ON THE DEATH OF MR. EBENEZER BLACKWELL, APRIL 21, 1782.

ON THE DEATH OF MRS. MARY HORTON, MAY 4, 1786, AGED THIRTY-FOUR.

ON THE DEATH OF COLONEL GALATIN.

ON THE DEATH OF MR. CHARLES WORGAN.

COMMUNION WITH A SAINT DEPARTED.

HYMNS FOR CHILDREN.

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ON THE DEATH OF MRS. DOROTHY HARDY.

Farewell, thou once a sinner,
Sad daughter of distress!
Thy suffering faith's Beginner
Confers the final peace;
The God of consolation
Is to thy rescue come,
And, crown'd with full salvation,
Receives His exile home.

With songs of pure thanksgiving
We trace thee to the skies,
No longer dead, but living
The life that never dies:
Thy days of sin and mourning
Are finish'd all and past,
Thy joy with Christ returning
Eternally shall last.

Where now are all thy fears
That God would never see
Thy unavailing tears,
Or mark thy misery;

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Would never more forgive thee,
Or for His outcast care,
But quite reject and leave thee,
Expiring in despair?

Where now thy lamentations
Of every comfort fled,
Thy friends and fond relations
Enroll'd among the dead?
Thy friends again have found thee,
Where each to each is known,
And shouting saints surround thee
On a superior throne.

Thy more enduring treasure
Thou hast obtain'd above,
And riches beyond measure
In thy Redeemer's love:
No sacrilegious spoiler
Shall those possessions share,
No treacherous keen reviler
Afflict thy spirit there.

The mourner there rejoices,
The weary are at rest,
And sweet celestial voices
Record the Ever Bless'd:
Jesus, they all adore Thee
In ecstasies of praise,
Or sink in floods of glory
Before Thy dazzling face.