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The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Volume 4 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 WRETCH that I am, what help, or hope Of rescue is for me! Have I not fill’d the measure up Of mine iniquity? 2 Have I not fought against my God, (Alas no longer mine!) Refused to hear the threatening rod, And dared the wrath Divine? 3 From Him I farther still have stray’d, Still more rebellious been, Of faith a dreadful shipwreck made, And added sin to sin. 4 Vilest of all the’ apostate race I have His love withstood, And sinn’d against His pardoning grace, And trampled on