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The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Volume 3 is unavailable, but you can change that!

The poetical publications of John and Charles Wesley originally appeared at various intervals during a span of fifty-three years. G. Osborn has collected, arranged, and provided notes for all of these important poems and hymns. Many of these works, especially those of Charles Wesley’s (whose work makes up the bulk of this collection), were never before published or published anonymously. Charles...

1 HEARTS of stone, relent, relent, Break, by Jesu’s cross subdued; See His body mangled, rent, Cover’d with a gore of blood! Sinful soul, what hast thou done? Murder’d God’s eternal Son! 2 Yes, our sins have done the deed, Drove the nails that fix Him here, Crown’d with thorns His sacred head, Pierced Him with a soldier’s spear, Made His soul a sacrifice; For a sinful world He dies. 3 Shall we let Him die in vain, Still to death pursue our God? Open tear His wounds again, Trample on