Hymns · 1741

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Made popular by John Wesley, Charles Wesley

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Hymnal / album Hymns on God's Everlasting Love

Publisher S. and F. Farley

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Notes This is a polemical poem written as part of a theological debate. 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. Introduced in Hymns on God's Everlasting Love, published by John and Charles Wesley (London: S. and F. Farley, 1741). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 3 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 20. A portion of this hymn was separately published as "Would Jesus Have the Sinner Die?"

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