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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...

2528. There was a great persecution … and they, &c.—8:1. 1 WHO shall presume to’ explore, Or tell us all His mind, If God let loose the adverse power The wicked hands unbind? By man doth He chastise In vengeful wrath His own? Or bid the raging tempest rise To make His mercy known? 2 His love and righteousness May they not both agree? While God permits the world to’ oppress That all His power may see While the whole preaching crowd To different climes are driven And water’d by the martyrs’