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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...

27. Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit, &c.—4:1. 1 CONSCIOUS of our infirmity, We wisely from the world retreat, The hazardous temptation flee, And shun the shock we dread to meet: But Jesus to the desert goes, For us to conquer all our foes. 2 He wears our feeble flesh, within Full of His own almighty grace, Divinely sure the fight to win, Himself exposes in our place, That we on all our foes may tread Already vanquish’d by our Head. 28. When the tempter came to Him, he said, &c.—4:3.