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11 u Din 151). Would Jesus have the sinner die? CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns on God s Everlasting Love, Bristol, 1741, No. x., headed Jesus Christ, the Saviour of all men&quot; ; IVorks, iii. 22. Inserted in the second number of the Arminian Afagazine. Eighteen verses. Hymn 283 is the first part of the same hymn, See, sinners, in the gospel glass. This hymn begins with ver. 12 of the original. In ver. 2 Charles Wesley wrote Dear, loving, all-atoning Lamb.

Hymn 160. O Love divine! what hast Thou done?

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742 ; Works, ii. 74. c Desiring to love. In the original ver. 3 reads, To bring us rebels near to God.

The refrain is from Ignatius Epistle to the Romans, but it is raised from human love to divine, Amor meus crucifixus est. John Mason has it in his Songs of Praise, 1683, as an opening line. Faber uses the refrain in his hymn on the Crucifixion

Come, take thy stand beneath the cross ;

And let the blood from out that side Fall gently on thee, drop by drop !

Jesus, our Love, is crucified !

Mr. C. L. Ford illustrates ver. 4, And gladly catch the healing stream, by an account of a Good Friday procession at Monaco : Les Madeleines et 1 Ange du Calice recueillant les gouttes du sang qui difcoule du coeur de Notre Seigneur Jdsus- Christ.

Hymn 161. All ye that pass by. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749; Works, iv. 371. Invitation to Sinners. In ver. 7 (line 4) the original reads, Acquitted I was.

Whitefield once gave out this hymn when he preached at the market-cross at Nottingham. A stout Churchman who had ridden from Ilkeston to hear him, arrived at the moment he was reading the first verse, and the third line came home as a direct appeal to himself. He was thus brought to Christ, and

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