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Hymn 292. By secret influence from above. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Short Hymns on Select Passages of Scripture (left in MS.) ; Works, ix. 236. Job vii. 17, 1 8.

Hymn 293. Art thou weary, art thou languid. JOHN MASON NEALE, D.D. (27).

Given in his Hymns of the Eastern Church, 1862, as a translation from St. Stephen the Sabaite, who was a nephew of John of Damascus, and died at Mar Saba in 794. In the third edition of that work he said that it contained so little from the Greek that in any future edition it would be placed in an Appendix. Saints, apostles, prophets, martyrs is Bishop Bickersteth s alteration of Angels, martyrs, prophets, virgins, in his Hymnal Companion.

Hymn 294. Come, ye that love the Lord.

ISAAC WATTS, D.D. (3).

Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707, entitled Heavenly Joy on Earth.

Wesley included it in his Charlestown Collection, 1737, with the beautiful heading, Heaven begun on earth.

The original read

1. Come we that love the Lord, And let our joys be known

3. But fav rites of the heav nly King.

4. The God that rules on high,

And thunders when He please, That rides upon the stormy sky, And manages the seas.

These lines Wesley altered to their present form, and omitted eight lines

2. The sorrows of the mind

Be banish d from this place : Religion never was design d To make our pleasures less.

9. The hill of Sion yields

A thousand sacred sweets, Before we reach the heav nly fields, Or walk the golden streets.

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