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The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Volume 8 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 O LORD, in pitying love give ear! My mournful supplications hear, For Thy own promise’ sake; O’erwhelm’d with sin and misery, Weary and faint I come to Thee, And proffer’d mercy take. 2 If Thou shouldst as my Judge appear, I could not bear the test severe: Not one of all our race Can stand acquitted in Thy sight, Or claim acceptance as his right, Or dare demand Thy grace. 3 A sinner self-condemn’d I am, And groan beneath my load of shame; My soul-destroying foe Hath smote and cast