O Thou who hast our sorrows borne, Help us to look on Thee and mourn, On Thee Whom we have slain, Have pierced a thousand thousand times, And by reiterated crimes Renewed Thy mortal pain.[120] The popular hymn beginning All ye that pass by, To Jesus draw nigh: To you is it nothing that Jesus should die? is, owing to its cheerful metre, hardly suited to the solemn services of Good Friday, and was intended for the open air. It was headed ‘Invitation to Sinners,’ and was used by Whitefield with great effect when preaching at the Market Cross, Nottingham, and elsewhere. John Wesley appointed many fast days, and was careful to fix them on Friday, but the observance of Lent does not seem to have been enforced, or even strongly recommended, in the Methodist Society. Hymns for saints’ days and for the minor festivals are unknown to the Wesley poetry. 2. Hymns on the Lord’s Supper.[121] This pamphlet contains 166 hymns, many of which are admirable and very close paraphrases of passages in Brevint’s _Christian Sacrifice_, but others are independent of that devout treatise. Many lend themselves readily to use in ‘catholic’ services, and have often been quoted as indicating high sacramentarian views.[122] On the other hand, such verses as the following must be taken in an entirely evangelical sense— The cup of blessing, blessed by Thee, Let it Thy blood impart: The bread Thy mystic body be, And cheer each languid heart. . . . . . With solemn faith we offer up, And spread before Thy glorious eyes, That only ground of all our hope, That precious, bleeding Sacrifice, Which brings Thy grace on sinners down, And perfects all our souls in one. . . . . . By faith we see Thy sufferings past In this mysterious rite brought back: And on Thy grand oblation cast, Its saving benefits partake. In these paraphrases there are naturally expressions which represent Brevint and not the Wesleys, except in so far as they indicate a general approval of his teaching. The hymns which most closely follow the treatise are often the least happy. Yet, when every deduction is made, this little book is one of the most edifying of devotional preparations for the Communion.