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 332 THE METHODIST HYMN-BOOK ILLUSTRATED

Hymn 587. Lo! I come with joy to do. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns for those tJtat seek and those that have Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ, 1747 ; Works, iv. 214. For a believer, in worldly business.

Vcr. 4 is omillcd

To the desert, or the cell,

Let others blindly fly, In this evil world I dwell,

Unhurt, unspotted, I : Here I find an house of prayer, To which I inwardly retire, Walking unconcern d in care,

And unconsumed in fire.

In ver. 5 Charles Wesley wrote, And here Thy goodness see.

Hymn 588. O Thou who earnest from above. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Short Hymns on Select Passages of Scripture, 1762 ; Works, ix. 58. The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar j it shall never go out. Lev. vi. 13.

Wesley told Samuel Bradburn, when they were together in Yorkshire in 1781, that his experience might always be found in the first two verses of this hymn.

The change in the last line from my sacrifice is not John Wesley s. He put his brother s words, the sacrifice, in the 1782 edition. The change effaces the antithesis between Thy endless mercies 3 and my sacrifice. Dr. W. B. Pope says, Death is the last earthly act and oblation of the sinless spirit, in which the sacrifice of all becomes perfect in one.

Hymn 589. Jesus, I fain would find. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Short Hymns on Select Passages of Scripture, 1762 ; Works, xiii. 230. Be zealous. Rev. iii. 19.

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