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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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HYMNS ON God's Everlasting Love.
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HYMNS ON God's Everlasting Love [Second series].
  
AN ELEGY On the Death of Robert Jones, Esq.; OF FONMON-CASTLE in Glamorganshire, SOUTH-WALES.
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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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HYMN I.
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HYMN II.
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HYMN III.
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HYMN IV.
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HYMN V.
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HYMN VI.
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HYMN VII.
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HYMN VIII.
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HYMN X.
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HYMN XI.
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HYMN XII.
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HYMN XIII.
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HYMN XIV.
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HYMN XV.
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HYMN XVI.
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HYMN XVII.
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HYMN XVIII.
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HYMN XIX.
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HYMN XX.
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HYMN XXI.
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HYMN XXII.
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HYMN XXIII.
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HYMN XXIV.
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HYMN XXV.
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HYMN XXVI.
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HYMN XXVII.
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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.
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Gloria Patri, &c. OR HYMNS TO THE TRINITY.
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GRACES.
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VOLUME IV.
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VOLUME V.
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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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XIV.

[Get thee behind us, fiend]

Get thee behind us, fiend,
With all thy baffled art!
The sheep we know thou canst not rend,
Unless thou first canst part:
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Jesus's ten-fold power
His saints assembled claim:
Tremble, thou fiend, and fly before
Our mighty Captain's name.
Thy wisdom from below
Full well we understand;
Disperse, and then our souls o'erthrow,
Divide us, and command:
But Jesus still shall hold
And keep us safe from harms,
Together lodged within His fold,
His everlasting arms.
While in our Shepherd's breast
Our helpless souls we hide,
Nor devils can disturb our rest,
Nor can the world divide:
To build each other up
We now in Jesus join,
And who shall burst the bond, or stop
The intercourse Divine?
This God hath bid us do,
And man forbids in vain;
Ye never, never can break through
Love's adamantine chain:
Join'd by the Saviour's will,
The same in mind and heart,
Ye may afflict us here, and kill,
But ye can never part.
Resolved our Lord to' obey,
In spite of man's command,
Together in the ancient way
Through His support we stand:
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Nor will we hence remove,
Till all triumphant rise
And meet the first-born church above,
Assembled in the skies.
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