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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 GOD of love, who hear’st the prayer Offer’d for a guilty land, Thou dost yet Thy wrath forbear, Hold awhile Thy lifted hand; Thou with bowels of compassion Giv’st us still a longer space: Turn us then, the sinful nation Conquer by Thy pardoning grace. 2 Thee in dreadful indignation Marching through the land we saw, Stopp’d by Israel’s supplication, Lo! Thou dost the scourge withdraw: O that all might hear and tremble At the long-suspended rod, All in Jesu’s name assemble, All confess the