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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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HYMN I. FOR ALL MANKIND.
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HYMN II. FOR PEACE.
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HYMN III. FOR THE CHURCH CATHOLIC.
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FOR THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.
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FOR THE MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL.
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HYMN X. FOR HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE.
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HYMN XI. FOR THE PRINCE OF WALES.
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FOR THE KING OF PRUSSIA.
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HYMN XV. FOR THE BRITISH NATION.
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HYMN XVI. FOR THE MAGISTRATES.
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HYMN XVII. FOR THE NOBILITY.
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HYMN XVIII. FOR THE PARLIAMENT.
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HYMN XIX. FOR THE FLEET.
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HYMN XX. FOR THE ARMY.
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FOR THE UNIVERSITIES.
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HYMN XXIII. FOR ALL THAT TRAVEL BY LAND OR BY WATER.
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HYMN XXIV. FOR ALL WOMEN LABOURING OF CHILD.
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HYMN XXV. FOR ALL SICK PERSONS.
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HYMN XXVI. FOR YOUNG CHILDREN.
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HYMN XXVII. FOR ALL PRISONERS AND CAPTIVES.
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HYMN XXVIII. FOR THE FATHERLESS CHILDREN.
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HYMN XXIX. FOR WIDOWS.
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HYMN XXX. FOR OUR ENEMIES, PERSECUTORS, AND SLANDERERS.
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HYMN XXXI. FOR OUR UNCONVERTED RELATIONS.
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HYMN XXXII. FOR THE JEWS.
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HYMN XXXIII. FOR THE TURKS.
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HYMN XXXIV. FOR THE HEATHEN.
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HYMN XXXV. FOR THE ARIANS, SOCINIANS, DEISTS, PELAGIANS, &c.
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THY KINGDOM COME!
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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.
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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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II.

[Faithful and True, Thy word we plead]

Faithful and True, Thy word we plead,
Met in Thy name to intercede
For the sad sons of woe,
Cut off by man, to death consign'd,
And justly swept from earth to find
Severer pains below.
With Sinai's thunderings, Lord, begin
To rouse the sleeping slaves of sin,
To' o'erwhelm with guilty shame;
Put them in fear, Thy wrath reveal,
Shake o'er the opening mouth of hell,
And scorch them with the flame.
Conviction's sharpest arrows dart,
And pierce their adamantine heart,
Who now to falsehoods fly;
That when their lies are swept away,
Cut off from all resource they may
To Thee for refuge cry.
Soon as Thou hear'st their contrite moan,
“Save, or eternally undone,
We die the second death,”
O let them call Thy death to mind,
And sinking into Tophet find
Thy mercy's arms beneath!
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