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 THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND THEIR WRITERS 22?

Hymn 344. Son of God, if Thy free grace. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742; Works, ii. 125, headed After a Recovery. Two verses omitted.

Hymn 345. Author of faith, eternal Word.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740 ; Works, i. 209. The Life of Faith, Exemplified in the Eleventh Chapter of St. PauTs Epistle to the Hebrr^us.

This is the first part, based on ver. I. The whole poem extends to eighty-five verses.

In ver. 4 the original reads, Pardon, and happiness, and heaven.

Cf. with ver. 5, Prior s Ode on Exod. iii. 14

Then faith for Reason s glimmering light shall give

Her immortal perspective,

To reach the heaven of heavens.

Hymn 346. Spirit of faith, come down.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns of Petition and Thanksgiving for the Promise of the Father, 1746 ; Works, iv. 196. One verse omitted. Ver. 3 reads, The great atoning Lamb !

Hymn 347. Faith is a living power from heaven. PETRUS HERBERT; translated by Miss WINKWORTH (19).

O Christenmensch, merk wie sichs halt is in the Brethren s German Hymn-book, 1566, in eighteen stanzas of four lines.

Bunsen s Versuch, 1833, gives six stanzas, beginning with stanza 3&amp;gt; altered to Der Glaub ist ein lebend ge Kraft. Bunsen calls it a noble confession of the true Christian faith.

Miss Winkworth s translation of the Bunsen selection is in Lyra Germanica, 2nd Series, 1858.

Herbert was a native or resident of Fulneck, in Moravia, priest among the Bohemian Brethren, 1562, and employed to confer with Calvin and on other important missions. He presented the Brethren s enlarged German Hymn-book, of which he had been one of the chief compilers, and to which

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