Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The Lord did not set his love upon you because ye were more in number than any people ... but because the Lord loved you.”—[Deut.] vii. 7, 8. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 95.

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