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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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[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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LXI. HYMNS OF INTERCESSION.
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LXII. THE SAME.
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LXIII. THE SAME.
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LXIV. THE SAME.
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LXV. THE SAME. FOR THE FALLEN.
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[FOR A SICK FRIEND]
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LXVIII. THE SAME. FOR A BACKSLIDER IN DESPAIR.
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LXIX. THE SAME. FOR A BACKSLIDER.
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LXX. THE SAME. FOR THE WAVERING.
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LXXI. THE SAME. FOR THE TEMPTED.
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LXXII. THE SAME.
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LXXIII. THE SAME.
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LXXIV. THE SAME.
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LXXV. THE SAME
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[HYMNS FOR THE PERSECUTED]
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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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1059.

[Stands the world in being still]

For the elect's sake . . . He hath shortened the days. —xiii. 20.

Stands the world in being still
Against that fatal day,
Kept from wasting flames until
The saints escape away:
For Thy people's sake alone,
The universe Thou dost reprieve,
That with Thee entirely one
They may for ever live.
Oft Thou dost cut short their days,
When sin and danger's near,
Save them from a poisonous race,
And trials too severe:
Oft, when just o'erpower'd in fight
They faint, by Satan's host oppress'd,
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Lord, Thou dost stir up Thy might,
And take them to Thy breast.
Lord, Thou seest me in the snare
And long continued strife,
Dying, ready to despair
Of everlasting life:
Shorten my extreme distress,
My soul to ruin's margin driven
Perfect in true holiness,
And snatch me up to heaven.
There shall I transported see
Thy miracles of love
Wrought on earth to rescue me,
And hide my life above:
There I shall with joy admire
The dangers I through death outrun,
Scarcely saved out of the fire
And caught up to Thy throne.
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