God may "fix in every sinless heart / His throne of everlasting love."
— Wesley, John and Charles
Author
Date
1744, 1868
Metaphor
God may "fix in every sinless heart / His throne of everlasting love."
Metaphor in Context
He will the steadfast mind impart,
The power that never shall remove,
And fix in every sinless heart
His throne of everlasting love.
The power that never shall remove,
And fix in every sinless heart
His throne of everlasting love.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "throne" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.
Citation
At least 1 entry in ECCO and ESTC (1744).
See A Collection of Moral and Sacred Poems from the Most Celebrated English Authors. By John Wesley, M. A. Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford. In Three Volumes. (Bristol: Printed and sold by Felix Farley; sold also by J. Wilson, in Wine-Street: in London by T. Trye, near Grey's-Inn Gate; H. Butler, near Bow-Church, and at the Foundery, Upper Moor-Fields: in Exeter by Mr. Score, and Mr. Thorne, 1744), vol. 3 of 3. <Link to ECCO>
Text from The Poetical works of John and Charles Wesley, Ed. G. Osborn, 13 vols. (London: The Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868). <Link to Hathi Trust>
See A Collection of Moral and Sacred Poems from the Most Celebrated English Authors. By John Wesley, M. A. Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford. In Three Volumes. (Bristol: Printed and sold by Felix Farley; sold also by J. Wilson, in Wine-Street: in London by T. Trye, near Grey's-Inn Gate; H. Butler, near Bow-Church, and at the Foundery, Upper Moor-Fields: in Exeter by Mr. Score, and Mr. Thorne, 1744), vol. 3 of 3. <Link to ECCO>
Text from The Poetical works of John and Charles Wesley, Ed. G. Osborn, 13 vols. (London: The Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868). <Link to Hathi Trust>
Date of Entry
08/09/2004
