My more than Friend, accept the Warning Lay
Songwriters: Charles Wesley
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “Epistle to a Friend, Written in the year 1743.” Expository Songs does not recommend the use of polemical poems in corporate worship and does not endorse all sentiments in this poem. It is included for reference purposes only, to allow a more complete overview of the use of Scripture in Wesley's work. This hymn was included in a manuscript titled “Epistles to Moravians, Predestinarians and Methodists. By a Clergyman of the Church of England,” also known as “MS Epistles.” This manuscript is held by the Methodist Archive and Research Centre of the John Rylands Library at The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/557, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 1 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1988), pages 171-87.
Publishing: Public Domain