All Praise to Our Redeeming Lord

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 >

All praise to our redeeming Lord. C. Wesley. [Christian Fellowship.] No. xxxii. of his Hymns for those that seek and those that have Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ, 1747, in 3 stanzas of 8 lines and entitled, "At Meeting of Friends." It was not included in the Wesleyan Hymn Book until after the death of J. Wesley, and was added in one of the editions of that collection during its partial revision in 1800-1. It has become a favourite hymn amongst the Methodist bodies in all English-speaking countries, but its use, otherwise than by the Methodists, is limited. Original text in Poetical Works, 1868-72, vol. iv. p. 252.

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)