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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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[HYMNS AND SACRED POEMS. IN TWO VOLUMES.]
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HYMNS AND SACRED POEMS. IN TWO VOLUMES. BY CHARLES WESLEY, M.A., Student of Christ-Church, Oxford. Vol. II.
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PART I.
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[THE TRIAL OF FAITH]
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XII. THE INWARD CROSS.
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XIII. ANOTHER.
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XIV. ANOTHER.
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XV. ANOTHER.
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XVI. THE LAST WISH.
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XVII.
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XVIII.
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XIX. FOR THE BROTHERHOOD.
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XX. ANOTHER.
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XXI. ANOTHER.
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XXII.
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[DESIRING TO PRAY]
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[ON THE LOSS OF HIS FRIENDS]
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XLII. WRITTEN WHEN UNDER REPROACH.
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XLIII. ANOTHER.
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[DESIRING DEATH]
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LIV. ON THE DEATH OF SAMUEL HITCHENS.
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LV. FOR ONE DEPARTING.
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[ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND]
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[ON THE DEATH OF THOMAS BEARD, WHO WAS IMPRESSED FOR A SOLDIER, AND DIED IN THE HOSPITAL AT NEWCASTLE.]
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LX. ON THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER WHITE.
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[HYMNS OF INTERCESSION]
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[HYMNS FOR THE PERSECUTED]
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LXXVI. HYMNS FOR THE PERSECUTED.
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LXXVII. THE SAME FOR THE BRETHREN AT WEDNESBURY.
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LXXVIII. THE SAME. FOR THE BRETHREN AT THE DEVIZES.
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[FOR ONE IN PRISON]
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LXXIX. THE SAME. FOR ONE IN PRISON.
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LXXX. ANOTHER.
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LXXXI. THE SAME.
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LXXXII. THE SAME.
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LXXXIII. THE SAME.
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[HYMNS FOR THE WATCHNIGHT.]
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PART II.
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VOLUME VI.
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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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40.

[To damn us by our own desires]

To damn us by our own desires,
Satan the world employs;
With avarice, and ambition fires,
And visionary joys,
By pomp, and state, and pageantry
Allures us to his shrine,
And tells my soul, “Bow down to me
And all my world is thine.”
But we a kingdom here receive,
A kingdom from above,
Which only Christ hath power to give,
Which never can remove:
The devil's proffers we disdain,
Who worship Christ alone,
Partakers of His patience reign,
Partakers of His throne.
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