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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 VICTIM DIVINE, Thy grace we claim While thus Thy precious death we show; Once offer’d up, a spotless Lamb, In Thy great temple here below, Thou didst for all mankind atone, And standest now before the throne. 2 Thou standest in the holiest place, As now for guilty sinners slain; Thy blood of sprinkling speaks, and prays, All-prevalent for helpless man; Thy blood is still our ransom found, And spreads salvation all around. 3 The smoke of Thy atonement here Darken’d the sun and rent