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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...

830. 1 CAN reason save from passion’s power, Or keep us in the’ unguarded hour? The moral sense in conscious man Or virtue of itself, restrain? The dread of shame, or grief, or hell, Can these the tempting lust repel? Their impotence too well I know, And sink before my stronger foe. 2 To save from sin, convinced I own, The power belongs to Christ alone: Yet till my sprinkled heart believes, No help the bare conviction gives: No vows the stubborn pulse can bind: No succour in the means I find, In