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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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VOLUME IV.
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VOLUME V.
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VOLUME VI.
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HYMNS FOR A PROTESTANT
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HYMNS FOR New-Year's-Day.
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HYMNS Occasioned by the EARTHQUAKE, March 8, 1750.
  
AN EPISTLE To the Reverend Mr. JOHN WESLEY,
  
AN EPISTLE TO THE REVEREND MR. GEORGE WHITEFIELD
  
CATHOLIC LOVE.
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HYMNS FOR THE YEAR 1756, PARTICULARLY FOR THE Fast-Day, FEBRUARY 6.
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Hymns for the Preachers among the Methodists (so called).
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HYMNS OF INTERCESSION FOR All MANKIND.
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HYMNS ON The Expected Invasion, 1759, AND FOR The Thanksgiving Day, November 20, 1759.
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FUNERAL HYMNS.
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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.
  
ANOTHER.
  
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.
  
FUNERAL HYMN.
  
ANOTHER.
  
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.
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HYMNS FOR CHILDREN.
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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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TO BE SUNG WHILE AT WORK.

Give we to the Lord above
Blessing, honour, praise, and love;
To the God that loosed our tongue
Sing we an unwonted song.
He to us hath come unsought,
Us hath out of darkness brought;
Darkness such as devils feel,
Issuing from the pit of hell.
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Had He not in mercy spared,
Hell had been our sure reward;
There we had received our hire,
Fuel of eternal fire.
But we now extol His name,
Pluck'd as firebrands from the flame,
Proofs of His unbounded grace,
Monuments of endless praise.
We are now in Jesus found;
With His praise let earth resound,
Tell it out through all her caves,
Jesu's name the sinner saves.
With His blood He us hath bought;
His we are, who once were not;
Far, as hell from heaven, removed,
He hath call'd us His beloved.
Sing we then with one accord
Praises to our loving Lord;
Who the stone to flesh converts,
Let us give Him all our hearts.
Harder were they than the rock,
Till they felt His mercy's stroke;
Gushing streams did then arise
From the fountains of our eyes.
Never let them cease to flow,
Since we now our Jesus know;
Let us, till we meet above,
Sing, and pray, and weep, and love.
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