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The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Volume 9 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...

SHORT HYMNS ON SELECT PASSAGES OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES 1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.—1:1. BY faith we know, the world was made Formless at first and void: We know, the universe decay’d Shall be by fire destroy’d: But soon the co-eternal Son We shall in glory view, Jehovah sitting on His throne, Creating all things new. 2. The earth was without form, and void, &c.—1:2. SUCH is my soul, confused and void, With darkness palpable o’erspread, Stripp’d of the living