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The Believer's Rest

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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: Come, O thou greater than our heart
Title: The Believer's Rest
Author: Charles Wesley
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

UPTON (Mason)


STONEFIELD


DUKE STREET

First published anonymously in Henry Boyd's Select Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1793), DUKE STREET was credited to John Hatton (b. Warrington, England, c. 1710; d, St. Helen's, Lancaster, England, 1793) in William Dixon's Euphonia (1805). Virtually nothing is known about Hatton, its composer,…

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A Collection of Hymns Adapted to the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church #d94

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social and Domestic Worship #d136

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social and Domestic Worship #d137

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #d136

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A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #510

A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in America #d76

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A Collection of Hymns for the use of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in America #493

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A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church #357

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A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church #357

A Collection of Hymns for the use of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. with a Supplement #d92

A Collection of Hymns for the use of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America #d97

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A Collection of Hymns, for the use of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America. #381

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A Collection of Hymns #357

A Selection of Hymns ... Supplement to the Methodist Pocket Hymn Book. 1st ed #d40

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African Methodist Episcopal hymn and tune book #235

Hallowed Songs #d62

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Hallowed Songs #47

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Hallowed Songs #199

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Hymn and Tune Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Round Note Ed.) #425

Hymn Book of the Colored M.E. Church in America #d94

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Hymn Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South #425

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Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church #524

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Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church #524

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Hymnal #235

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Hymns and Sacred Poems #272

Hymns for the Use of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Impr. ed. #d94

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Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. ed. #493

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New Hymn and Tune book #137d

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New Hymn and Tune Book #137d

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The African Methodist Episcopal Hymn and Tune Book #235

The American Hymn and Tune Book #d110

The Chapel Hymn Book #d67

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The Heart and Voice #74c

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The Hymn Book of the African Methodist Episcopal Church #616

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The Reformed Methodist Pocket Hymnal #I.143

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The Tribute of Praise and Methodist Protestant Hymn Book #4

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The Tribute of Praise #4

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The Tribute of Praise #58

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Wesleyan Hymn and Tune Book #12j

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