Hymns · 1743

My more than Friend, accept the Warning Lay

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Hymnal / album Epistles to Moravians, Predestinarians and Methodists. By a Clergyman of the Church of England (manuscript)

Publisher Kingswood Books

Copyright Public Domain (Disclaimer: This is not legal advice. The publication year, if correct, suggests that this work may be in public domain in the U.S..)

Notes 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 1 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1988), pages 171-87.

Scripture connections

References

Verses this song directly draws from

Matthew 22:1-14 Luke 14:13-23 John 10:12-13 Ephesians 3:18-19

Allusions

Verses this song echoes or alludes to

Genesis 1:28 Genesis 5:24 Genesis 27:19 Genesis 27:35-36 Exodus 13:17 Exodus 14:13-14 Numbers 14:4 Deuteronomy 29:11 Joshua 9:21-27 Judges 16:6-30 Job 12:2 Job 14:2 Job 27:3 Psalm 24:7-10 Psalm 84:7 Psalm 91:3 Psalm 103:15-16 Psalm 122:6 Song of Solomon 2:15 Isaiah 10:22 Isaiah 25:8 Isaiah 28:15-18 Isaiah 37:31 Isaiah 40:31 Isaiah 50:7 Isaiah 52:1 Isaiah 53:3 Isaiah 53:7 Isaiah 56:10 Jeremiah 13:23 Jeremiah 31:15 Ezekiel 34:10 Ezekiel 34:12 Daniel 5:27 Amos 3:12 Zechariah 13:7 Matthew 2:18 Matthew 3:7 Matthew 5:39 Matthew 7:13-14 Matthew 7:15 Matthew 10:38 Matthew 11:29-30 Matthew 11:30 Matthew 13:22 Matthew 16:18 Matthew 16:24 Matthew 18:12-14 Matthew 22:2-14 Matthew 24:2 Matthew 25:14-30 Matthew 26:31 Matthew 28:19-20 Mark 3:7-8 Mark 8:34 Mark 10:21 Mark 13:2 Mark 14:21 Mark 16:15 Luke 6:29 Luke 9:23 Luke 9:62 Luke 12:19 Luke 15:4-7 Luke 21:6 Luke 22:31 Luke 23:34 John 6:35 John 6:48 John 7:38 John 8:31 John 10:12 Acts 9:15 Acts 17:6 Acts 20:29 Acts 27:44 Romans 3:8 Romans 7:22-25 Romans 8:2 Romans 9:27 II Corinthians 11:14 II Corinthians 12:16 Galatians 1:6-7 Galatians 1:15-16 Galatians 5:1 Galatians 5:7 Galatians 5:13 Ephesians 2:8-9 Ephesians 4:14 Ephesians 4:28 Ephesians 6:12 Ephesians 6:16-17 Philippians 3:14 Colossians 2:18 Colossians 2:18 I Thessalonians 1:3 II Timothy 4:3-4 Titus 1:16 Titus 5:6-7 Hebrews 2:3 Hebrews 6:4-6 Hebrews 11:5 Hebrews 11:15 Hebrews 12:23 I Peter 2:23 II Peter 2:19 II Peter 2:20 I John 2:1 Revelation 3:17 Revelation 6:16-17 Revelation 7:17 Revelation 19:7-9 Revelation 21:4