[137]Cf. Tyerman’s _Wesley_ and Horne’s _History of the Free Churches_. [138]_Poetical Works_, vol. iv. p. 446. [139]Ibid., vol. iii. p. 23. [140]_Poetical Works_, vol. iii. p. 21. [141]Ibid., vol. iii. p. 73. [142]Telford’s _Charles Wesley_, p. 245. [143]_Poetical Works_, vol. v. p. 133. [144]_Methodist Hymn-book_, 366. Wesley himself closed this hymn with Ken’s doxology. [145]Cf. Phil. i. 9. [146]I am inclined to think there is a reference here to the ἀγρἁµµατοί καὶ ἰδιῶται of Acts iv. 13. [147]Trench’s _Notes on the Parables_. [148]Charles Wesley wrote _favour_. John Wesley improved both the sense and sound by changing the word to _mercy_. [149]_Poetical Works_, vol. x. p. 57. Charles Wesley wrote _bleeds_; the change to _grieves_ was made in John Wesley’s hymn-book. [150]_Poetical Works_, vol. i. p. 50. [151]_Hymns and Sacred Poems_ (1749); _Poetical Works_, vol. v. p. 306. [152]Wesley included forty-nine hymns under the heading, ‘For Believers Groaning for Full Redemption,’ and twenty-six under the heading, ‘Believers Brought to the Birth.’ These sections were, later, united under the title, ‘Seeking for Full Redemption.’ The _Methodist Hymn-book_ has forty-four, of which thirty-seven are Charles Wesley’s, three translations by John Wesley, two by Miss Havergal, one by Dr. Bonar, and one by T. Monod. [153]_Methodist Hymn-book_, 905. [154]Ibid., 88. [155]The hymn, ‘When quiet in my house I sit,’ _Methodist Hymn-book_, 264, is made up of Nos. 300-303 in the _Short Poems_. [156]Julian, p. 1149. [157]Julian, p. 478, thinks that Bakewell wrote a very small portion of this hymn. Some readers will be interested to know that more than thirty years ago a great-grandson of John Bakewell’s was selling newspapers in the streets of a town in the North of England—friendless, homeless, ragged, and in delicate health. He came to The Children’s Home, and grew up worthy of his remote ancestors. He became an architect, and did some excellent work, but died in early manhood of consumption. [158]_Apologia._ [159]See Wright’s _Town of Cowper_. [160]John Wesley was very indignant at the refusal of ordination to John Newton, but was probably too loyal to the Church to suggest his becoming a Methodist preacher.—_Journal_, March 20, 1760. [161]It was to the first Lord Dartmouth that Ken, on the recommendation of Pepys, became chaplain in the Tangier Expedition of 1683. His character may be judged from a letter, in which he writes that he has ‘to answer to God for the preservation of so many souls He hath been pleased to place under my care.’—Plumptre’s _Life of Ken_. [162]Hazlitt’s _English Poets_, p. 123. [163]_Supra_, p. 111. [164]Wesley’s _Journal_, May 25, 1750. [165]Tyerman’s _Whitefield_, ii. 174. [166]Julian, p. 681, gives the three versions.