Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him.”—[Gen.] xxvii. 41. 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 26.

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