86 THE METHODIST HYMN-BOOK ILLUSTRATED
Hymn 63. O God of God, in whom combine.
German ; translated by JOHN WESLEY (36).
Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739; Works, i. 162. Supplication for grace, From the German
Gott aus dem quillt alles Leben. The original is ascribed to Zinzendorf, but it has not been identified.
Hymn 64. O God of all grace. CHARLES WESLEY (i).
Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1 749 ; Works, v. 30. Hymns for Believers. In twenty stanzas of three lines.
Hymn 65. Father, whose everlasting love.
CHARLES WESLEY (i).
Hymns on God s Everlasting Love, 1741 ; Works, iii. 3. In the original ver. 4 reads A world, which is happily changed to The world."
A relic of the controversy on Calvinism, which separated the Wesleys and Whitefield in 1741. Wesley had taken the Arminian position so early as 1725, when discussing great questions of theology in his letters to his mother. In 1740 Whitefield was greatly disturbed by Wesley s sermon on Free Grace. This hymn represents the Methodist doctrine on this cardinal subject. Wesley reprinted it in the Arminian Magazine, 1778.
Hymn 66. What shall I do my God to love.
CHARLES WESLEY (i).
Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749 ; Works, iv. 446. It is the fourth of a set of seven hymns headed After a Recovery. It begins
O what an evil heart have I, So cold, and hard, and blind !
The fourth verse reads in the original, My trespass is grown up to heaven. The original has eighteen verses.
In the hymn-book of 1875, the hymn began with the ninth verse ; here it begins with the eleventh.
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