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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.
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HYMNS FOR CHILDREN.
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HYMN I. OF GOD.
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HYMN II. OF THE CREATION AND FALL OF MAN.
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[OF THE REDEMPTION OF MAN.]
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HYMN VI. OF THE MEANS OF GRACE.
 VII. 
HYMN VII. OF HELL.
 VIII. 
HYMN VIII. OF HEAVEN.
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HYMN IX.
 X. 
HYMN X.
 XI. 
HYMN XI.
 XII. 
HYMN XII.
 XIII. 
HYMN XIII.
 XIV. 
HYMN XIV.
 XV. 
HYMN XV.
 XVI. 
HYMN XVI.
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HYMN XVII.
 XVIII. 
HYMN XVIII.
 XIX. 
HYMN XIX.
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HYMN XX.
 XXI. 
HYMN XXI.
 XXII. 
HYMN XXII.
 XXIII. 
HYMN XXIII.
 XXIV. 
HYMN XXIV.
 XXV. 
HYMN XXV.
 XXVI. 
HYMN XXVI.
 XXVII. 
HYMN XXVII.
 XXVIII. 
HYMN XXVIII.
 XXIX. 
HYMN XXIX.
 XXX. 
HYMN XXX.
 XXXI. 
HYMN XXXI. BEFORE READING THE SCRIPTURES.
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HYMN XXXII.
 XXXIII. 
HYMN XXXIII.
 XXXIV. 
HYMN XXXIV.
 XXXV. 
HYMN XXXV. A THOUGHT ON JUDGMENT.
 XXXVI. 
HYMN XXXVI.
 XXXVII. 
HYMN XXXVII.
 XXXVIII. 
HYMN XXXVIII.
 XXXIX. 
HYMN XXXIX.
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HYMN XL. AT THE OPENING OF A SCHOOL IN KINGSWOOD.
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HYMN XLI.
 XLII. 
HYMN XLII.
 XLIII. 
HYMN XLIII.
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HYMN XLIV. FOR THE SCHOLARS.
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HYMN XLV.
 XLVI. 
HYMN XLVI.
 XLVII. 
HYMN XLVII.
 XLVIII. 
HYMN XLVIII.
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HYMN XLIX.
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HYMN L.
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HYMN LI.
 LII. 
HYMN LII. BEFORE SCHOOL.
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HYMN LIII. IN SCHOOL.
 LIV. 
HYMN LIV. AFTER SCHOOL.
 LV. 
HYMN LV. AGAINST IDLENESS.
 LVI. 
HYMN LVI. AGAINST LYING.
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HYMN LVII.
 LVIII. 
HYMN LVIII.
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HYMN LIX.
 LX. 
HYMN LX. A THOUGHT ON HELL.
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HYMN LXI. FOR THE LORD'S DAY.
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HYMN LXII. ON THE SAME.
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HYMN LXIII.
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HYMN LXIV.
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HYMN LXV.
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HYMN LXVI. BEFORE, OR IN, THEIR WORK.
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Hymns for Girls.
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PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY.
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Hymns for the Youngest.
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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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70.

[A thousand secret checks within]

A thousand secret checks within,
To unacknowledged grace I owe;
A thousand times preserved from sin,
I now my kind Preserver know;
Thou didst support my yielding heart,
Thou didst to good my will incline;
And when I chose the better part,
The virtuous thought was all Divine.
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I envied oft the swine their meat,
But none the husks of pleasure gave:
Oft by my bosom-sin beset,
Mercy contrived my soul to save:
The grace I trembled to receive,
Escaping from the broken snare;
And scarcely durst my heart believe
That mercy could redeem so far.
Still on a precipice I stand,
Or seem on solid waves to tread;
Secure in an Almighty hand,
When raging flames surround my head;
Nigh is my sin, but Thou art nigher,
And while to Thee my soul I give,
I hang in air, I walk in fire,
In death by miracle I live!
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