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 202 THE METHODIST HYMN-BOOK ILLUSTRATED

Hymn 282. Shepherd of souls, with pitying eye. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns for those that seek and those that have Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ, 1747; Works, iv. 251. For the outcasts of Israel. Eight verses. Ver. 3

Wild as the untaught Indians brood,

The Christian savages remain, Strangers and enemies to God,

They make Thee spend Thy blood in vain. That comparison between Georgia and England shows how the state of his own countrymen weighed on the heart of Charles Wesley.

Hymn 283. Behold the Lamb of God, who bears.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns on God s Everlasting Love, Bristol, 1741 j Works, iii. 20. Jesus Christ the Saviour of men.

Inserted in the second number of the Arminian Magazine. The first verse is here omitted, See, sinners, in the gospel glass.

Hymn 159 is a later part of the same hymn.

Hymn 284. Ye neighbours and friends, to Jesus

draw near. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749; Works, v. 115. After preaching to the Newcastle Colliers. Twelve verses. The first line of the original reads of Jesus. The last part of ver. 3 is of Jesus s/raz ^.

Charles Wesley s Journal for November 30, 1746, says, I went out into the streets of Newcastle, and called the poor, the lame, the halt, the blind, with that precious promise, &quot; Him that cometh to Me, I will in no wise cast out.&quot; They had no feeling of the frost while the love of Christ warmed their hearts.

This seems to have been the service after which the hymn was written.

Hymn 285. Sinners, your hearts lift up.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742 ; Works, ii. 229. Hymn for the day of Pentecost.

The sixth verse, Drop down in showers of love, is omitted.

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