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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 JESUS, the rising Lord of all, His love to man commends, Poor worms He blushes not to call His brethren and His friends. 2 Who basely all forsook their Lord In His distress, and fled, To these He sends the joyful word, When risen from the dead. 3 Go tell the vile deserters!—No: My dearest brethren tell, Their Advocate to heaven I go, To rescue them from hell. 4 Lo! to My Father I ascend! Your Father now is He, My God, and yours, whoe’er depend For endless life on Me. 5 Henceforth I ever