"AN Inward Baptism of Fire / Wherewith to be baptiz'd I have; / 'Tis all my longing Soul's Desire, / This, only This my soul can save."

— Wesley, John and Charles


Place of Publication
Bristol, Bath, and London
Publisher
Printed by Felix Farley, J. Wilson, W. Frederick, T. Harris
Date
1742
Metaphor
"AN Inward Baptism of Fire / Wherewith to be baptiz'd I have; / 'Tis all my longing Soul's Desire, / This, only This my soul can save."
Metaphor in Context
1. AN Inward Baptism of Fire
Wherewith to be baptiz'd I have;
'Tis all my longing Soul's Desire,
This, only This my soul can save.
(p. 136)
Provenance
Reading in Google Books
Citation
At least 3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1742, 1745, 1756). See also the many other collections of hymns which select from or incorporate hymns from the original.

Text from 1742 edition of Hymns and Sacred Poems (Bristol: Printed and sold by Felix Farley, in Castle-Green; J. Wilson in Wine-Street; and at the School-Room in the Horse-Fair: in Bath, by W. Frederick, Bookseller: and in London, by T. Harris on the Bridge; also, at the Foundery in Upper-Moor-Fields, 1742). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>

Found also in Hymns and Sacred Poems (Bristol: Printed by Felix Farley, 1745). <Link to ECCO>

First found searching in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, ed. G. Osborn, 13 vols. (London: The Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868). <Link to Hathi Trust> [There titled "Luke XII. 50."]
Date of Entry
02/09/2014

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.