SACRED POETRY.

УЯТНОЧ СЛЯЗАГ

SELECTED FROM THE WORKS OF

THE REV. CHARLES

WESLEY, M.A.,

Of Christ Church, Oxford, and Presbyter of the
Church of England

A LAY MEMBER OF THE

EDITED BY

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

These abilities are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed; and are of power
to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune; to cele-
brate in glorious and lofty hymus the throne and equipage of God's almightiness,
and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought, with high providence in his
Church.

MILTON.

RECORDED JUDGMENTS.

"It may be affirmed that there is no principal element of Christianity, no main article of belief, as professed by Protestant Churches; that there is no moral or ethical sentiment, peculiarly characteristic of the Gospel-that does not find itself emphatically and pointedly and clearly conveyed in some stanza of Charles Wesley's poetry." ISAAC TAYLOR.

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"Full of inspiration, this sweet singer translated into the language of earth snatches of orisons unutterable, till his plastic felicity embodied them in immortal verse." JAMES HAMILTON, D.D.

"Perhaps no poems have ever been so devoutly committed to memory as these, nor so often quoted on a death-bed." SOUTHEY.

"This fervent lyrist and liturgist was perhaps the most gifted `minstrel of the modern Church; none since the Psalmist has embodied in strains so genuine the religious exercises of the soul."

LONDON QUARTERLY.

"Christian experience furnishes him with everlasting and inexhaustible themes; and it must be confessed that he has celebrated them with an affluence of diction and a splendor of coloring rarely surpassed." JAMES MONTGOMERY.