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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...

1046. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, &c.—1:2. 1 HEAR, heaven and earth, your God’s appeal, (Jehovah to His creature cries,) Angels and men, My justice tell, When all My storms of vengeance rise To plague a vile rebellious race, Apostates from My richest grace. 2 Children I have nursed up and bred, Mark’d with the new, the Christian name, But lo! the base degenerate seed Impatient to divulge their shame, Their foul ingratitude to prove, Have spurn’d the bowels of My love. 1047. The