Wesley, John and Charles

1290. While our grief for sin we show [from Hymns on the Four Gospels, and Acts of the Apostles. Including Such "Short Hymns" as Were Published in 1762.]

1868

"Jesus by His Spirit's power / Fuller confidence imparts, / Gives us what He gave before, / Seals the pardon on our hearts"

He said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.

--vii. 48.

While our grief for sin we show,
  Our respect for Christ express,
More confirm'd His love we know,
  Deeper wrought His work of grace;
Jesus by His Spirit's power
  Fuller confidence imparts,
Gives us what He gave before,
  Seals the pardon on our hearts.

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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>

More than 5,100 hymns written by Wesley for Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, with six books of material left (over 1,000 hymns) in manuscript. Unpublished were the hymns on the "Four Gospels and the Acts of Apostles."

04/19/2005