[119]These hymns are in _Hymns and Sacred Poems_ (1739). The Epiphany hymn is in _Church Hymns_, 115, with alterations. [120]Cf. _Paradise Lost_, bk. 1. That with reiterated crimes, he might Heap on himself damnation. I cannot refrain from saying how much I regret the omission of this hymn from the _Methodist Hymn-book_. It is retained by the American Methodist Episcopal, Primitive Methodist, and others, though the Primitive Methodist most unfortunately changes ‘flaming’ into ‘loving’ eyes in verse 3, apparently overlooking the reference to ‘His eyes were as a flame of fire.’ [121]_Hymns on the Lord’s Supper_, by John and Charles Wesley, presbyters of the Church of England. With a preface concerning the Christian Sacrament and Sacrifice, extracted from Dr. Brevint, Bristol. Printed by Felix Farley, M DCC XLV. [122]Canon Carter’s _Altar Hymnal_ has eight of Wesley’s hymns. He also ascribes to C. Wesley Miss Leeson’s translation of _Victimae Paschali_. ‘Christ, the Lord, is risen to-day,’ Christians, haste your vows to pay. [123]The whole book was reprinted, in 1871, with Wesley’s _Companion for the Altar_ (extracted from _Thomas à Kempis_), and an Introduction by Mr. W. E. Dutton, under the title, _The Eucharistic Manuals of John and Charles Wesley_. Mr. Dutton’s design was to show that ‘the Wesleys held opinions and taught doctrines now known as Catholic, yet far in advance of the times in which they lived, and very different from the doctrines taught by that body of men now called by their name.’ I may also mention another interesting book, now out of print, Mr. Warrington’s _Echoes of the Prayer-book in Wesley’s Hymns_. [124]Col. ii. 19. [125]_Methodist Hymn-book_, 729. [126]_Hymns Ancient and Modern_, 553. _Altar Hymnal_, 151. [127]Cf. ‘And here we offer and present unto Thee, O Lord, ourselves, our souls and bodies;’ with verse iv., ‘Take my soul and body’s powers,’ _Methodist Hymn-book_, 562. [128]‘The ordinary position of the ‘Gloria in Excelsis’ in ancient liturgies was at the beginning, not at the end of the office. It so stood in our own Liturgy down to 1552, when it was placed at the end of the service.... It may be truly said that there is no Liturgy in the world which has so solemn and yet so magnificent a conclusion as our own.’—Proctor and Maclear’s _Introduction to the Book of Common Prayer_. [129]Tyerman’s _Whitefield_, vol. i. p. 465. [130]_Poetical Works_, vol. iii. [131]Tyerman’s _Whitefield_, vol. i. p. 478. [132]The hymn has seventeen verses, some of which are, as Whitefield says, ‘very bad.’ _Methodist Hymn-book_, 65. [133]_Wesley Poetry_, vol. iii. p. 60. [134]_Works_, vol. xiii. [135]_Poetical Works_, vol. iii. p. 78; _Methodist Hymn-book_, 435. [136]Tyerman’s _Wesley’s Designated Succession_, vol. i. p. 88, 89.