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Danger of Final Apostasy

Ah Lord, with trembling I confess

Author: Charles Wesley
Published in 37 hymnals

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Author: Charles Wesley

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 deepene… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Ah Lord, with trembling I confess
Title: Danger of Final Apostasy
Author: Charles Wesley
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

Ah, Lord, with trembling I confess. C. Wesley. [Backsliding.] From his Short Hymns, &c, 1762, vol. ii., No. 30. It appeared in the Wesleyan Hymn Book, 1780; and is retained in the new edition, 1875, No. 317. It has also passed into various collections in Great Britain and America, and is included in the Poetical Works of J. & C. Wesley, 1868-72, vol. x. p. 165.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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A Collection of Hymns Adapted to the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church #d8

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social and Domestic Worship #d13

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social and Domestic Worship #d13

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #d13

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A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #601

A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in America #d6

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A Collection of Hymns for the use of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in America #866

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A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church #91

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A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church #91

A Collection of Hymns for the use of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. with a Supplement #d9

A Collection of Hymns for the use of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America #d3

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A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists, with a Supplement #317

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A Collection of Hymns, for the use of the United Brethren in Christ #539

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A Collection of Hymns, for the use of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America. #418

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A Collection of Hymns #91

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A Collection of Hymns #316

A Selection of Hymns ... Supplement to the Methodist Pocket Hymn Book. 1st ed #d5

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Hymn and Tune Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Round Note Ed.) #491

Hymn Book of the Holiness Movement Church #d7

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Hymn Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South #491

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Hymn Book of the Methodist Protestant Church. (2nd ed.) #659

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Hymn book of the Methodist Protestant Church. (4th ed.) #659

Hymns for the Use of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Impr. ed. #d6

Hymns for the Use of the Brethren in Christ #d4

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Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. ed. #866

Methodist Hymn and Tune Book #d11

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Methodist Hymn-Book #451

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New Hymn and Tune book #127c

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New Hymn and Tune Book #127c

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The Heart and Voice #15d

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The Hymn Book of the Free Methodist Church #622

The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes #480

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The Reformed Methodist Pocket Hymnal #I.36

The Sacred Lyre #d8

The Singer's Choice #d6

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