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The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Volume 6 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 HOW happy every child of grace who knows his sins forgiven! This earth, he cries, is not my place, I seek my place in heaven: A country far from mortal sight; Yet, O! by faith I see The land of rest, the saints’delight, The heaven prepared for me. 2 A stranger in the world below, I calmly sojourn here, Nor can its happiness or woe Provoke my hope or fear: Its evils in a moment end, Its joys as soon are past; But, O! the bliss to which I tend Eternally shall last. 3 To that Jerusalem above