Rev. Charles Wesley

Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• The 53d Chapter of ISAIAH. ()
• ACTS i. 4 . Wait for the Promise of the Father, which ye have heard of me. ()
• ACTS ii . 41 , &c. ()
• ACTS iv . 29. ()
• After a Recovery from Sickness. ()
• Another. ()
• Another. ()
• Another. ()
• At MEALS. ()
• CHRIST the Friend of Sinners. ()
• Congratulation to a Friend, upon Believing in CHRIST. ()
• FREE GRACE. ()
• GAL . iii . 22 . The Scripture hath concluded all under Sin, that the Promise by Faith of JESUS CHRIST might be given to them that believe. ()
• Glory be to GOD on high, &c. ()
• GRACE after MEAT. ()
• GRACE after MEAT. ()
• GRACE before MEAT. ()
• GRACE before MEAT. ()
• HEB. xii . 2 . Looking unto JESUS, the Author and Finisher of our Faith. ()
• HYMN after the Sacrament. ()
• HYMN for ASCENSION-DAY. ()
• HYMN for CHRISTMAS-DAY. ()
• HYMN for EASTER-DAY. ()
• A HYMN for MIDNIGHT. ()
• HYMN for the EPIPHANY. ()
• HYMN for WHITSUNDAY. ()
• HYMN of THANKSGIVING to the FATHER. ()
• HYMN on the Titles of CHRIST. ()
• HYMN to CHRIST the King. ()
• HYMN to CONTEMPT. ()
• HYMN to the HOLY GHOST. ()
• HYMN to the HOLY GHOST. ()
• HYMN to the SON. ()
• IId HYMN to CHRIST the King. ()
• IId HYMN to CHRIST. ()
• IIId HYMN to CHRIST. ()
• In AFFLICTION. ()
• In DESERTION or TEMPTATION. ()
• ISA . li . 9 , &c. ()
• ISAIAH xliii . 1 , 2 , 3. ()
• JOHN xv . 18 , 19. ()
• JOHN xvi . 24 . Ask, and ye shall receive, that your Joy may be full. ()
• JUSTIFIED, but not SANCTIFIED. ()
• The MAGNIFICAT. ()
• MATTH. V. 3 . Blessed are they that mourn. ()
• A MORNING HYMN. ()
• On Reading Monsr. de RENTY's Life. ()
• On the Conversion of a Common Harlot. LUKE XV. 10 . There is Joy in the Presence of the Angels of GOD over one Sinner that repenteth. ()
• A PRAYER under Convictions. ()
• ROM . iv . 5 . To him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the Ungodly, his Faith is counted for Righteousness. ()
• SOLITUDE. From the Latin. ()
• Therefore with Angels, &c. ()
• To be sung at WORK. ()
• Written in the Beginning of a Recovery from Sickness. ()
• ZEAL. ()

• Wesley, John, 1703-1791. Wesley, Charles, 1707-1788. Hymns and sacred poems: Published by John Wesley, ... and Charles Wesley, ... London: printed by William Strahan; and sold by James Hutton; and at Mr. Bray's, 1739. x,[6],223,[1]p.; 12⁰. (ESTC T31323; OTA K034809.000)
  • SOLITUDE. From the Latin.
  • ZEAL.
  • On Reading Monsr. de RENTY's Life.
  • JOHN xv . 18 , 19.
  • HYMN to CONTEMPT.
  • GRACE before MEAT.
  • Another.
  • GRACE after MEAT.
  • A HYMN for MIDNIGHT.
  • Written in the Beginning of a Recovery from Sickness.
  • After a Recovery from Sickness.
  • A PRAYER under Convictions.
  • The 53d Chapter of ISAIAH.
  • HEB. xii . 2 . Looking unto JESUS, the Author and Finisher of our Faith.
  • GAL . iii . 22 . The Scripture hath concluded all under Sin, that the Promise by Faith of JESUS CHRIST might be given to them that believe.
  • MATTH. V. 3 . Blessed are they that mourn.
  • CHRIST the Friend of Sinners.
  • On the Conversion of a Common Harlot. LUKE XV. 10 . There is Joy in the Presence of the Angels of GOD over one Sinner that repenteth.
  • ROM . iv . 5 . To him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the Ungodly, his Faith is counted for Righteousness.
  • ACTS i. 4 . Wait for the Promise of the Father, which ye have heard of me.
  • HYMN of THANKSGIVING to the FATHER.
  • HYMN to the SON.
  • HYMN to the HOLY GHOST.
  • FREE GRACE.
  • Therefore with Angels, &c.
  • Glory be to GOD on high, &c.
  • The MAGNIFICAT.
  • In AFFLICTION.
  • In DESERTION or TEMPTATION.
  • JUSTIFIED, but not SANCTIFIED.
  • ISAIAH xliii . 1 , 2 , 3.
  • HYMN on the Titles of CHRIST.
  • IId HYMN to CHRIST.
  • IIId HYMN to CHRIST.
  • HYMN to CHRIST the King.
  • IId HYMN to CHRIST the King.
  • A MORNING HYMN.
  • HYMN to the HOLY GHOST.
  • HYMN after the Sacrament.
  • ACTS ii . 41 , &c.
  • To be sung at WORK.
  • Another.
  • ACTS iv . 29.
  • Congratulation to a Friend, upon Believing in CHRIST.
  • HYMN for CHRISTMAS-DAY.
  • HYMN for the EPIPHANY.
  • HYMN for EASTER-DAY.
  • HYMN for ASCENSION-DAY.
  • HYMN for WHITSUNDAY.
  • GRACE before MEAT.
  • At MEALS.
  • GRACE after MEAT.
  • Another.
  • JOHN xvi . 24 . Ask, and ye shall receive, that your Joy may be full.
  • ISA . li . 9 , &c.

Source editions

• Wesley, John, 1703-1791. Wesley, Charles, 1707-1788. Hymns and sacred poems: Published by John Wesley, ... and Charles Wesley, ... London: printed by William Strahan; and sold by James Hutton; and at Mr. Bray's, 1739. x,[6],223,[1]p.; 12⁰. (ESTC T31323; OTA K034809.000)

Bibliography

ODNB 29067; DMI 2302

Editions

• Kimbrough, S. T., Jr, and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds. The unpublished poetry of Charles Wesley. Nashville, TN: Kingswood, 1988/1990. Print. 2 volumes.
• Maddox, Randy L., ed. John and Charles Wesley, Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739). Duke Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, 2018. Web. 25 Jan. 2019. https://divinity.duke.edu/sites/divinity.duke.edu/files/documents/cswt/04_Hymns_and_Sacred_Poems_%281739%29.pdf.

Biography

• Tyson, John R. Assist me to proclaim: the life and hymns of Charles Wesley. Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2007. Print.

Criticism

• Arnold, Richard. Trinity of Discord: The Hymnal and Poetic Innovations of Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, and William Cowper. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2012. Print.
• Cruickshank, Joanna. Were Early Methodists Masochists? Suffering, Submission and Sanctification in the Hymns of Charles Wesley. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 88(2) (2006): 81-100. Print.
• Gibson, Colin. Popular theology in the hymns of Charles Wesley. Music in the Air (Summer 1996): 2-6. Print.
• Marshall, Madeleine Forell, and Janet Todd. English Congregational Hymns in the Eighteenth Century. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1982. Print.
• Palmer, John. Hymn as Poetry: Charles Wesley's Religious Influence and Rhetorical Excellence. Hill, Darci N., ed. Reflections on Medieval and Renaissance Thought. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2017. 33-43. Print.
• Watson, J. R. The Presentation of Holiness and the Concept of Christian Perfection in the Sermons and Hymns of the Wesleys, 1730-1780. Visser, Irene, and Helen Wilcox, eds. Transforming Holiness: Representations of Holiness in English and American Literary Texts. Louvain, Belgium: Peeters, 2006. 81-94. Print.
• Watson, J. R. Author, faith, and word: biblical text and metaphor in Charles Wesley's hymns. Dayras, Solange, ed. Parole biblique et inspiration littéraire. Paris: Université de Paris-Nord, 1990. 81-95. Print.