Hymns of the Christian Life #195
Display Title: Jesus, thine all victorious love First Line: Jesus, thine all victorious love Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Date: 1992
Hymns of the Christian Life #195

1 Jesus, Thine all-victorious love
shed in my heart abroad;
then shall my feet no longer rove,
rooted and fixed in God.
2 O that in me the sacred fire
might now begin to glow;
burn up the dross of base desire,
and make the mountains flow!
3 O that it now from heav'n might fall,
and all my sins consume!
Come, Holy Ghost, for Thee I call;
Spirit of burning come.
4 Refining fire, go through my heart,
illuminate my soul;
scatter Thy life through ev'ry part,
and sanctify the whole.
5 My steadfast soul from falling free,
shall then no longer move,
while Christ is all the world to me
and all my heart is love.
Source: Our Great Redeemer's Praise #149
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 >| First Line: | Jesus, Thine all victorious love |
| Author: | Charles Wesley (1740) |
| Language: | English |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
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