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despised Protestant conventicle in that splendid court [of Paris] are echoed to-day from the ends of the earth. The genius of the Wesleys has given wings to the thought and feeling of Dr. Brevint ; the handful of corn shakes like Lebanon.

Hymn 728. The promise of My Father s love. ISAAC WATTS, D.D. (3).

Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1709. It is No. 3 in Book III. : Pre pared for the holy ordinance of the Lord s Supper, and is headed The New Testament in the Blood of Christ ; or, The New Covenant Sealed.

Watts laid emphasis in the preface to his Psalms of David on the small number of psalms sung at the celebration of the Lord s Supper. Though, to speak my own sense freely, I do not think David ever wrote a psalm of sufficient glory and sweetness to represent the blessings of this holy institution.

Hymn 729. Come, all who truly bear.

CHARLES WESLEY (i). Hymns on the Lord s Supper, 1745 ; Works, iii. 224. No. 13.

Hymn 730. Come, Thou everlasting Spirit.

CHARLES WESLEY (i). Hymns on the Lord s Supper, 1745 ; Works, iii. 226. No. 16.

Hymn 731. Lamb of God, whose dying love. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns on the Lord s Supper, 1745 ; Works, iii. 228. No. 20. Ver. 4, Never will we hence depart, is omitted. In the first line dying is a happy substitute for bleeding. John Wesley changed thus into now in 1780.

Hymn 732. Let all who truly bear.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns on the Lara s Supper, 1745 ; Works, iii. 218. No. 4. In four stanzas of eight lines. The first half of verses I, 2, 3 ; the second half of ver. 4.

By these omissions the whole hymn is lifted up to a higher grade.

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