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All ye that seek the Lord who died

Author: Charles Wesley Appears in 7 hymnals Matching Instances: 7

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 16 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Composer and/or Arranger: Wenzel Müller Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 54562 47154 57654 Used With Text: All Ye That Seek the Lord Who Died

WARRINGTON

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 177 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph Harrison, 1748-1810 Tune Sources: Adapt.: Editors of Hymns for Church and School, 1964 Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 55435 11271 32232 Used With Text: All you that seek the Lord who died

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All Ye That Seek the Lord Who Died

Hymnal: Small Church Music #7442 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Tune Title: ABSCHIED

All Ye That Seek the Lord Who Died

Author: Charles Wesley Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #350 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1. All ye that seek the Lord who died, Your God for sinners crucified, Prevent the earliest dawn, and come To worship at His sacred tomb. 2. Bring the sweet spices of your sighs, Your contrite hearts, and streaming eyes, Your sad complaints, and humble fears; Come, and embalm Him with your tears. 3. While thus ye love your souls t’employ, Your sorrow shall be turned to joy: Now, let all your grief be o’er! Believe, and ye shall weep no more. 4. An earthquake hath the cavern shook, And burst the door, and rent the rock; The Lord hath sent His angel down, And he hath rolled away the stone. 5. As snow behold his garment white, His countenance as lightning bright: He sits, and waves a flaming sword, And waits upon his rising Lord. 6. The third auspicious morn is come, And calls your Savior from the tomb, The bands of death are torn away, The yawning tomb gives back its prey. 7. Could neither seal nor stone secure, Nor men, nor devils make it sure? The seal is broke, the stone cast by, And all the powers of darkness fly. 8. The body breathes, and lifts His head, The keepers sink, and fall as dead; The dead restored to life appear, The living quake, and die for fear. 9. No power a band of soldiers have To keep one body in its grave: Surely it no dead body was That could the Roman eagles chase. 10. The Lord of Life is risen indeed, To death delivered in your stead; His rise proclaims your sins forgiv’n, And show the living way to Heav’n. 11. Haste then, ye souls that first believe, Who dare the Gospel-Word receive, Your faith with joyful hearts confess, Be bold, be Jesus’ witnesses. 12. Go tell the followers of your Lord Their Jesus is to life restored; He lives, that they His life may find; He lives, to quicken all mankind. The Garden of the Sepulcher 13. It was a night of calls and far replies, A night of trembling for that Serpent head In gulfs that were before the eldest dead— A night of whispering haste along the skies, Prayer, and a wondering down of seraph eyes; While stilled Jerusalem, washed in the moon’s light, Lay like a brood of sepulchers, ghost-white. 14. The dark was dying silverly, that strange, Still hour when Earth is falling toward the day— That hour of spacious silence and delay When all things pose upon the hinge of change. The guardsmen had grown silent on their round, Their fire was sinking, when a crash of sound— Darkness—a reel of Earth—a rush of light— Cleft rocks—then scent of aloes on the night! 15. Their faces turned to faces of the dead, Their spears fell clamoring terribly as they fled. And He stood risen in the guarded place, With empire in His gesture—on His face The hush of muted music and the might That drew the stars down on the ancient night. 16. Tall in the first-light, mystical and pale, He stood as one who dares and cannot fail, As some high conscript of the Bright Abodes, As one still called to travel on the wild roads In Love’s divine adventure—His white face Hushed with heroic purpose for the race; Yet wistful of the men who should deny Him, And wistful of the years that should belie Him. 17. With peace of heart the blind world could not break, He took a path the young leaves keep awake. Glad of the day come back and loving all, He passed across the morning, felt the cool, Sweet, kindling air blown upward from the pool A burning bush was reddening by the wall; An oleander bough was full of stirs, Struck by the robes of unseen messengers. 18. The hills broke purpling, as the sun’s bright edge Pushed slowly up behind a rocky ledge: The hovering dome of the Temple, gray and cold, Burned out with sudden, unexpected gold. A light wind silvered up the olive slope, And all the world was wonder and wild hope! 19. Edwin Markham The Shoes of Happiness and Other Poems, 1921 Languages: English Tune Title: ABSCHIED

All you that seek the Lord who died

Author: Charles Wesley, b. 1707-1788 Hymnal: Singing the Faith #294 (2011) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Jesus Christ: Risen and Ascended Scripture: Acts 13:37-38 Languages: English Tune Title: WARRINGTON

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Charles Wesley

1707 - 1788 Person Name: Charles Wesley, b. 1707-1788 Author of "All you that seek the Lord who died" in Singing the Faith Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepened, and he became one of the first band of "Oxford Methodists." In 1735 he went with his brother John to Georgia, as secretary to General Oglethorpe, having before he set out received Deacon's and Priest's Orders on two successive Sundays. His stay in Georgia was very short; he returned to England in 1736, and in 1737 came under the influence of Count Zinzendorf and the Moravians, especially of that remarkable man who had so large a share in moulding John Wesley's career, Peter Bonier, and also of a Mr. Bray, a brazier in Little Britain. On Whitsunday, 1737, [sic. 1738] he "found rest to his soul," and in 1738 he became curate to his friend, Mr. Stonehouse, Vicar of Islington, but the opposition of the churchwardens was so great that the Vicar consented that he "should preach in his church no more." Henceforth his work was identified with that of his brother John, and he became an indefatigable itinerant and field preacher. On April 8, 1749, he married Miss Sarah Gwynne. His marriage, unlike that of his brother John, was a most happy one; his wife was accustomed to accompany him on his evangelistic journeys, which were as frequent as ever until the year 1756," when he ceased to itinerate, and mainly devoted himself to the care of the Societies in London and Bristol. Bristol was his headquarters until 1771, when he removed with his family to London, and, besides attending to the Societies, devoted himself much, as he had done in his youth, to the spiritual care of prisoners in Newgate. He had long been troubled about the relations of Methodism to the Church of England, and strongly disapproved of his brother John's "ordinations." Wesley-like, he expressed his disapproval in the most outspoken fashion, but, as in the case of Samuel at an earlier period, the differences between the brothers never led to a breach of friendship. He died in London, March 29, 1788, and was buried in Marylebone churchyard. His brother John was deeply grieved because he would not consent to be interred in the burial-ground of the City Road Chapel, where he had prepared a grave for himself, but Charles said, "I have lived, and I die, in the Communion of the Church of England, and I will be buried in the yard of my parish church." Eight clergymen of the Church of England bore his pall. He had a large family, four of whom survived him; three sons, who all became distinguished in the musical world, and one daughter, who inherited some of her father's poetical genius. The widow and orphans were treated with the greatest kindness and generosity by John Wesley. As a hymn-writer Charles Wesley was unique. He is said to have written no less than 6500 hymns, and though, of course, in so vast a number some are of unequal merit, it is perfectly marvellous how many there are which rise to the highest degree of excellence. His feelings on every occasion of importance, whether private or public, found their best expression in a hymn. His own conversion, his own marriage, the earthquake panic, the rumours of an invasion from France, the defeat of Prince Charles Edward at Culloden, the Gordon riots, every Festival of the Christian Church, every doctrine of the Christian Faith, striking scenes in Scripture history, striking scenes which came within his own view, the deaths of friends as they passed away, one by one, before him, all furnished occasions for the exercise of his divine gift. Nor must we forget his hymns for little children, a branch of sacred poetry in which the mantle of Dr. Watts seems to have fallen upon him. It would be simply impossible within our space to enumerate even those of the hymns which have become really classical. The saying that a really good hymn is as rare an appearance as that of a comet is falsified by the work of Charles Wesley; for hymns, which are really good in every respect, flowed from his pen in quick succession, and death alone stopped the course of the perennial stream. It has been the common practice, however for a hundred years or more to ascribe all translations from the German to John Wesley, as he only of the two brothers knew that language; and to assign to Charles Wesley all the original hymns except such as are traceable to John Wesley through his Journals and other works. The list of 482 original hymns by John and Charles Wesley listed in this Dictionary of Hymnology have formed an important part of Methodist hymnody and show the enormous influence of the Wesleys on the English hymnody of the nineteenth century. -- Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================== Charles Wesley, the son of Samuel Wesley, was born at Epworth, Dec. 18, 1707. He was educated at Westminster School and afterwards at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated M.A. In 1735, he took Orders and immediately proceeded with his brother John to Georgia, both being employed as missionaries of the S.P.G. He returned to England in 1736. For many years he engaged with his brother in preaching the Gospel. He died March 29, 1788. To Charles Wesley has been justly assigned the appellation of the "Bard of Methodism." His prominence in hymn writing may be judged from the fact that in the "Wesleyan Hymn Book," 623 of the 770 hymns were written by him; and he published more than thirty poetical works, written either by himself alone, or in conjunction with his brother. The number of his separate hymns is at least five thousand. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872.