Deliverance From Danger

All praise to the Lord, Who rules with a word

Author: Charles Wesley
Tune: COME, LET US ANEW (Webbe)
Published in 15 hymnals

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: All praise to the Lord, Who rules with a word
Title: Deliverance From Danger
Author: Charles Wesley
Meter: 10.5.11.10.5.11
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

All praise to the Lord, Who rules with a word. C. Wesley. [Thanksgiving for deliverance from Shipwreck.] Appeared in his Hymns & Sacred Poems, 1749. (Poetical Works, 1868-72, vol. v. p. 378.)

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social and Domestic Worship #d21

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social and Domestic Worship #d21

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #d21

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A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #865

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Hymns for Christian Melody #924

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Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. ed. #1046

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New Hymn and Tune book #383c

Seamen's Devotional Assistant and Mariners' Hymns (American Seamen's Friend Society) #d12

Seamen's Hymns and Devotional Assistant #d11

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The Christian Hymnal #352

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The Heart and Voice #360a

The Imperial Harmony #d8

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A Collection of Hymns for the use of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in America #1046

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New Hymn and Tune Book #383c

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