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The poetical works of John and Charles Wesley

Wesley, Charles (1707-1788)

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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.

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HYMNS ON THE LORD's SUPPER.

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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.

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V. Concerning the Sacrifice of our Persons.

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VI. After the Sacrament.

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

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[The great ones of the earth delight]

When Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding, &c. —xxiii. 8.

The great ones of the earth delight
In each new entertaining sight,
Diversion all their aim:
And still religion is the sport
Of wicked princes and their court
Who bear the Christian name.