The poetical works of John and Charles Wesley

Wesley, Charles (1707-1788)

VOLUME I.

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VOLUME II.

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VOLUME III.

HYMNS ON God's Everlasting Love.

HYMNS ON God's Everlasting Love [Second series].

AN ELEGY On the Death of Robert Jones, Esq.; OF FONMON-CASTLE in Glamorganshire, SOUTH-WALES.

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.

HYMNS ON THE LORD's SUPPER.

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.

V. Concerning the Sacrifice of our Persons.

CXXVIII.

CXXIX.

CXXX.

CXXXI.

CXXXII.

CXXXIII.

CXXXIV.

CXXXV.

CXXXVI.

CXXXVII.

CXXXVIII.

CXXXIX.

CXL.

CXLI.

CXLII.

CXLIII.

CXLIV.

CXLV.

CXLVI.

CXLVII.

CXLVIII.

CXLIX.

CL.

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CLII.

CLIII.

CLIV.

CLV.

CLVI.

CLVII.

VI.

VI. After the Sacrament.

Gloria Patri, &c. OR HYMNS TO THE TRINITY.

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VIII.

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HYMN XVIII.

[A transgressor from the womb]

A transgressor from the womb,
Sinking now into my tomb;
O forbid it, Lord, that I,
Born in sin, in sin should die.

Whom Thyself hast died to save,
Snatch from the infernal grave;
Me to save, Thy love impart,
Pour the bliss into my heart.

Essence of eternal love,
Joy of all Thy hosts above,
Joy of all Thy saints below,
Only Thee I sigh to know.

Banish'd now out of Thy sight,
Bound in chains of penal night,
Painfully my want I feel;
Absent love is present hell.

Kindler of seraphic fires,
Fill my soul with pure desires;
All my guilty gloom to chase,
Jesus, show Thy heavenly face.

Pain before Thy presence flies,
Grief no longer weeps or sighs:
Sin and unbelief remove,
God in Thee I see and love.

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HYMN XVIII.

[A transgressor from the womb]