Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping &c.’—[Matt. 25,] v. 30.” Wesley originally published the last four lines of verse 2 as the hymn “What multitudes the curse shall feel” in his 1762 hymnal "Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2" (Bristol: Farley, 1762). He later revised and expanded this verse and added a first verse in his unpublished 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School.

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