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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...

1524. For they feared the people.—22:2. FEAR for a moment may withhold, And curb the man to evil sold; But if a stronger passion rise, He every consequence defies, And nature all restraint disdains, And sin and Satan take the reins. 1525. He … sought opportunity to betray Him unto them.—22:6. 1 A PRIEST corrupt whom avarice blinds For no mature occasion stays, But goes, and seeks it out, and finds, Truth, justice, innocence betrays, No conscience, no remorse he feels, And to His foes the