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The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Volume 7 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 WHO is so great a God as ours, So near with His redeeming powers, So ready at His creature’s cry To send deliverance from the sky, To turn aside the ills we dread, And all our largest hopes exceed! 2 Thou dost, in answer to our prayer, A death-devoted victim spare: Thou hast not, Lord, in wrath removed A child too tenderly beloved, But still Thine eye with pity sees His parents’ life wrapp’d up in his. 3 Thy pity heard our softest tears, And scatter’d all our