Charles Wesley

1707-1788
 
Born: Born: December 28, 1707, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England.
Died: March 29, 1788, London, England.
Buried: Marylebone Parish Church, London.

Charles Wesley wrote over 6,000 hymns. Like most hymnists, his work were frequently altered. In the preface to one of his hymnals, he wrote:

I beg leave to mention a thought which has been long upon my mind, and which I should long ago have inserted in the public papers, had I not been unwilling to stir up a nest of hornets. Many gentlemen have done my brother and me (though without naming us) the honour to reprint many of our hymns. Now they are perfectly welcome to do so, provided they print them just as they are. But I desire they would not attempt to mend them, for they are really not able. None of them is able to mend either the sense or the verse. Therefore, I must beg of them these two favours: either to let them stand just as they are, to take things for better or worse, or to add the true reading in the margin, or at the bottom of the page, that we may no longer be accountable either for the nonsense or for the doggerel of other men.

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In addition to hymn writing, Charles and his brother John founded the Methodist Church.

Hymns:

  1. All Praise to Our Redeeming Lord

  2. Ambassadors of God

  3. And Are We Yet Alive?

  4. And Can It Be That I Should Gain?

  5. And Let Our Bodies Part

  6. And Let This Feeble Body Fail

  7. And Must I Be to Judgment Brought

  8. Arise, My Soul, Arise

  9. Author of Faith, Eternal Word

  10. Because Thou Hast Said

  11. Blest Be the Dear Uniting Love

  12. Blow Ye the Trumpet, Blow

  13. By Faith We Find the Place Above

  14. Captain of Israel’s Host

  15. Celebrate Immanuel’s Name

  16. Charge to Keep I Have, A

  17. Christ from Whom All Blessings Flow

  18. Christ the Lord Is Risen Today

  19. Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies

  20. Come Away to the Skies

  21. Come, and Let Us Sweetly Join

  22. Come, Holy Ghost, Our Hearts Inspire

  23. Come, Let Us Join Our Friends Above

  24. Come, Let Us Join with One Accord

  25. Come, Let Us Anew Our Journey Pursue

  26. Come, Let Us Use the Grace Divine

  27. Come, Let Us Who in Christ Believe

  28. Come, O Thou Traveller Unknown

  29. Come, Sinners, to the Gospel Feast

  30. Come, Thou Almighty King

  31. Come, Thou Conqueror of the Nations

  32. Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus

  33. Come, Ye Weary Sinners, Come

  34. Depth of Mercy

  35. Father, I Stretch My Hands to Thee

  36. Father of Jesus Christ, My Lord

  37. Forever Here My Rest Shall Be

  38. Forth in Thy Name, O Lord

  39. Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild

  40. Give Me the Faith Which Can Remove

  41. Great Archangel’s Trump, The

  42. Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise

  43. Hark! A Voice Divides the Sky

  44. Hark! the Herald Angels Sing

  45. He Comes! He Comes! the Judge Severe!

  46. Head of Thy Church, Whose Spirit Fills

  47. Hearken to the Solemn Voice

  48. How Can We Sinners Know

  49. How Happy Are the Little Flock

  50. How Happy Every Child of Grace

  51. I Know That My Redeemer Lives

  52. I Want a Principle Within

  53. In Age and Feebleness Extreme

  54. Infinite God, to Thee We Raise

  55. Jesus Christ Is Risen Today

  56. Jesus, Faithful to His Word

  57. Jesus, Lord, We Look to Thee

  58. Jesus, Lover of My Soul

  59. Jesus, My Strength, My Hope

  60. Jesus, the Conqueror, Reigns

  61. Jesus! the Name High over All

  62. Jesus, the Sinner’s Friend

  63. Jesus, Thine All Victorious Love

  64. Jesus, Thou All Redeeming Lord

  65. Jesus, United by Thy Grace

  66. Jesus, We Look to Thee

  67. Join, All Ye Ransomed Sons of Grace

  68. Lamb of God I Look to Thee

  69. Let Earth and Heaven Combine

  70. Let Us Plead for Faith Alone

  71. Lift Your Heads

  72. Light of Those Whose Dreary Dwelling

  73. Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending

  74. Lord, in the Strength of Grace

  75. Lord, Whom Winds and Waves Obey

  76. Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

  77. Lovers of Pleasure More Than God

  78. Maker in Whom We Live

  79. My God, I Know, I Feel Thee Mine

  80. O Come and Dwell in Me

  81. O for a Heart to Praise My God

  82. O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing

  83. O How Happy Are They

  84. O Jesus, My Hope

  85. O Love, Divine, How Sweet Thou Art

  86. O Love Divine, What Hast Thou Done

  87. O Thou Who at Thy Creature’s Bar

  88. O Thou Who Camest from Above

  89. O Thou, Whom All Thy Saints Adore

  90. O What Shall I Do, My Savior to Praise

  91. Our Earth We Now Lament to See

  92. Our Lord Is Risen from the Dead

  93. Praise the Lord Who Reigns Above

  94. Prisoners of Hope, Arise

  95. Rejoice, the Lord Is King

  96. See How Great a Flame Aspires

  97. See, Sinners, in the Gospel Glass

  98. Sinners, Believe the Gospel Word

  99. Sinners, Obey the Gospel Word

  100. Sinners, Turn: Why Will You Die?

  101. Soldiers of Christ, Arise

  102. Spirit of Faith, Come Down

  103. Stand the Omnipotent Decree

  104. Surrounded by a Host of Foes

  105. Talk with Us, Lord

  106. Thou Hidden Source of Calm Repose

  107. This Is Thy Will, I Know

  108. Thou Judge of Quick and Dead

  109. Thousand Oracles Divine, A

  110. ’Tis Finished! The Messiah Dies

  111. To Us a Child of Royal Birth

  112. Weary of Wandering from My God

  113. Weary Souls That Wander Wide

  114. Where Shall My Wondering Soul Begin?

  115. Woe to the Men on Earth Who Dwell

  116. Would Jesus Have the Sinner Die?

  117. Ye Neighbours and Friends of Jesus

  118. Ye Ransomed Sinners, Hear

  119. Ye Servants of God

  120. Ye Thirsty for God

  121. Ye Waiting Souls, Arise


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