Charles Wesley
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Life
Born: December 18, 1707, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England.
Died: March 29, 1788, London, England.
Biography
Charles Wesley was a famous English hymn writer, composing over 6000 hymns in his lifetime. He was the father of Charles Wesley, Jr.. Like most hymnists, his works were frequently altered. In the preface to the 1779 Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists his brother, John, railed against the reprinting of their hymns with no credit given. In addition to hymn writing, Charles and his brother founded the Methodist movement.
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Settings of his literary work
Settings of text by Charles Wesley
- Ah lovely appearance of death! (Benjamin Milgrove)
- All ye that pass by (Benjamin Milgrove)
- All-conquering Lord, whom sinners adore (Thomas Clark)
- And am I only born to die (John Fawcett)
- And let this feeble body fail (John Stainer)
- Andover (Samuel Holyoke)
- Anstruther (Oliver Holden)
- Ascension (Jacob French)
- Aspiration (Jacob French)
- Assiduity (Abijah Forbush)
- Attention (Jacob French)
- Author of life divine (Chris Dell)
- Author of life divine (Henry Lawes)
- Author of life divine (Samuel Sebastian Wesley)
- Autumn (Amos Pilsbury)
- Bach's Christmas Carol (Johann Sebastian Bach)
- Baldwin (William Hauser)
- Barnstable (Daniel Read)
- Bethlehem (James P. Carrell)
- Bethlehem (William Moore)
- Blaenwern (Andrew Sims)
- Blow ye the trumpet, blow (Dunstable) (Thomas Clark)
- Bolton (William Billings)
- Born to Die (Jeremiah Ingalls)
- Branch of Jesse's stem, arise (John Fawcett)
- Broomsgrove (James P. Carrell)
- By me, O my saviour stand (Benjamin Milgrove)
- Canaan (Amos Pilsbury)
- Celebrate Immanuel's name (Joel Thorne)
- A charge to keep I have (Samuel Sebastian Wesley)
- A charge to keep I have (William Henry Monk)
- Chelsea (Abijah Forbush)
- Cheshunt New (Our Lord is risen from the dead) (Samuel Arnold)
- Christ the Lord is risen today (J. Ashley Hall)
- Christ's incarnation (Myles Birket Foster)
- Christ, whose glory fills the skies (Douglas Walczak)
- Christ, whose glory fills the skies (Ronald McVey)
- Christ, whose glory fills the skies (Samuel Sebastian Wesley)
- Christ, whose glory fills the skies (T. Frederick H. Candlyn)
- Christ, whose glory fills the skies (William Henry Havergal)
- Christian Soldier (Daniel Read)
- The Church triumphant (Bruce Michez)
- Columbia (Jeremiah Ingalls)
- Come, Desire of Nations, come (Simon Biazeck)
- Come, Holy Ghost, our hearts inspire (Anonymous)
- Come, let us anew our journey pursue (Honiton) (Thomas Clark)
- Come, let us who in Christ believe (Thomas Jarman)
- Come, let us with our Lord arise (Johann Gottfried Schicht)
- Come, Lord, from above, the mountain remove (William Marsh)
- Come, O thou traveller unknown (Colchester) (Samuel Sebastian Wesley)
- Come, O thou traveller unknown (Peniel) (Samuel Sebastian Wesley)
- Come, O thou Traveller unknown (Robert King)
- Come, thou long-expected Jesus (John Stainer)
- Come, thou long-expected Jesus (Traditional)
- Come, thou long-expected Jesus (William Henry Havergal and Charles H. Giffen)
- Complaint (Daniel Read)
- Complaint (James P. Carrell)
- Consolation (Anonymous)
- Contemplation (Anonymous)
- Decay (Hezekiah Moors)
- Delay (Jeremiah Ingalls)
- Derby ("Come let us anew") (Anonymous)
- Dissolution (Jacob French)
- Dover (Amos Pilsbury)
- Easter Hymn (William Henry Monk)
- Father, to thee my soul I lift (Joel Thorne)
- Fayetteville (Samuel Holyoke)
- Fellowship (Jeremiah Ingalls)
- For ever here my rest shall be (Guildford) (Thomas Clark)
- Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go (Orlando Gibbons)
- Franklin (Amos Pilsbury)
- Franklin (Timothy Swan)
- Friendship (Anonymous)
- Funeral (James P. Carrell)
- Funeral Hymn (James P. Carrell)
- Glory be to God on high (John Foster)
- Hail the day that sees him rise (Anonymous)
- Hail the day that sees him rise (Mark Liversidge)
- Hail the day that sees him rise (William Henry Monk)
- Hail the day that sees him rise II (Anonymous)
- Hallelujah (William Walker)
- Hamburgh (Amos Pilsbury)
- Happiness (Anonymous)
- Happy Choice (Jeremiah Ingalls)
- Happy the souls to Jesus joined (Thomas Jarman)
- Hark! How all the welkin rings (Harry Ellis Wooldridge)
- Hark! the herald angels sing (Felix Mendelssohn)
- Hartford (Amos Bull)
- Haverhill (Amos Pilsbury)
- He comes, he comes, the judge severe (Benjamin Milgrove)
- Head of the Church (Jeremiah Ingalls)
- Hearken to the solemn voice, the awful midnight cry (Thomas Clark)
- Hearts of stone, relent (Benjamin Milgrove)
- Help us to help each other, Lord (Anonymous)
- Hermon (James P. Carrell)
- Ho everyone that thirsts, draw nigh (Zechariah Whelpdale)
- Ho. Everyone that thirsts draw nigh (Benjamin Milgrove)
- Holborn (Aaron Williams)
- Hollis Street (William Billings)
- Hope (Jeremiah Ingalls)
- Horeb (Samuel Babcock)
- Hotham (Martin Madan)
- Innocent Sounds (Jeremiah Ingalls)
- Intercession (James P. Carrell)
- Jesu, Lover of my soul (Francis Duckworth)
- Jesu, lover of my soul (John Bacchus Dykes)
- Jesu, lover of my soul (Joseph Barnby)
- Jesu, lover of my soul (Joseph Parry)
- Jesu, lover of my soul (Leveland) (Thomas Clark)
- Jesus, Lord, we look to thee (Justin Heinrich Knecht)
- Jesus, lover of my soul (Marshfield) (Thomas Clark)
- Jesus, the word of mercy give (John Newton)
- Jesus, we thus obey (Arthur Somervell)
- Jubilee (James P. Carrell)
- Jubilee (Oliver Brownson)
- Judea (Amos Pilsbury)
- Judgment (James P. Carrell)
- Kedron (Amos Pilsbury)
- Knowledge of Jesus (Jeremiah Ingalls)
- Knowles (G Knowles)
- Let saints on earth in concert sing (Anonymous)
- Light of those whose dreary dwelling (Joseph Barnby)
- Lo, he comes with clouds descending (Anonymous)
- Lo, he comes with clouds descending (Burland) (Thomas Clark)
- Lo, he comes with clouds descending (Driffield) (Thomas Clark)
- Lo, he comes with clouds descending (John Fawcett)
- Love divine, all loves excelling (William Penfro Rowlands)
- Love's redeeming work is done (Anonymous)
- Love's redeeming work is done (James Gibb)
- Messiah (Samuel Wakefield)
- Middlebury (R. D. Humphreys)
- Middletown (Amos Bull)
- Moment's Thought (Amos Pilsbury)
- Mount Calvary (Stephen Jenks)
- Mount Holly (Hezekiah Moors)
- Mourner (James P. Carrell)
- My God, I am thine; what a comfort divine (Joel Thorne)
- New Year (James P. Carrell)
- New-Jerusalem (Oliver Holden)
- O for a heart to praise my God (Thomas Wright)
- O for a thousand tongues to sing (Alfred James Eyre)
- O for a thousand tongues to sing (John Massengale)
- O for a thousand tongues to sing (Karl Gotthelf Gläser)
- O for a thousand tongues to sing (Thomas Haweis)
- O God of peace and pardoning love (Samuel Chapple)
- O love divine, how sweet thou art (James Leach)
- O love divine, how sweet thou art (John Fawcett)
- O love divine, how sweet thou art (Samuel Sebastian Wesley)
- O Love divine, how sweeth Thou art (Francis Duckworth)
- O love divine, what hast thou done! (Benjamin Milgrove)
- O that I, first of love possessed (Thomas Clark)
- O that our faith (Peter Tranchell)
- O thou eternal victim slain (Thomas Jarman)
- O thou who camest from above (Samuel Sebastian Wesley)
- Our Lord is risen from the dead (Joseph Barnby)
- Paradise (Jeremiah Ingalls)
- Perseverance (James P. Carrell)
- Petition (Amos Pilsbury)
- Praise the Lord, who reigns above (Benjamin Milgrove)
- Preparation (Jacob French)
- Psalm 112 (Amos Pilsbury)
- Pure baptismal Fire divine (Jeremy Rawson)
- Ratisbon (Andrew Sims)
- Refuge (James P. Carrell)
- Rejoice evermore with angels above (Thomas Jarman)
- Rejoice! the Lord is King (George Frideric Handel)
- Rejoice, the Lord is king (John Fawcett)
- Rejoice, the Lord is King (Joseph Barnby)
- Repentance (James P. Carrell)
- Restoration (Hezekiah Moors)
- Rhode Island (Amos Pilsbury)
- Rochester (William Billings)
- Rockingham (Amos Pilsbury)
- Sagina (Thomas Campbell (composer))
- Salisbury (Oliver Brownson)
- Sandusky (Samuel Holyoke)
- Savannah (Andrew Sims)
- Shepherd divine, our wants relieve (Thomas Turton)
- Sing to the great Jehovah's praise (Thomas Jarman)
- Sing, O heavens (Alfred Robert Gaul)
- Soldiers of Christ, arise (Adam Geibel)
- Soldiers of Christ, arise (Isaac Smith)
- Soldiers of Christ, arise (William Henry Monk)
- Solomon's Song (Timothy Swan)
- Sons of men, behold from far (John Massey)
- Springfield (Lemuel Babcock)
- St. Johns (James P. Carrell)
- Staunton (James P. Carrell)
- Summoned my labour to renew (Joel Thorne)
- Sussex (James P. Carrell)
- Syena (Jacob French)
- Sylvestes (James P. Carrell)
- Talk with us, Lord, thyself reveal (Thomas Clark)
- Thanksgiving (Timothy Swan)
- Thirtieth (Amzi Chapin)
- Thou judge of quick and dead (Samuel Sebastian Wesley)
- Thou Lord on whom I still depend (Alan Struck)
- Thou Shepherd of Israel (Francis Duckworth)
- Thou shepherd of Israel and mine (Benjamin Milgrove)
- To us a Child of royal birth (John Frederick Lampe)
- Translation (Hezekiah Moors)
- The Tribunal (Jeremiah Ingalls)
- Triumph (Amos Pilsbury)
- True Happiness (William Walker)
- Tunbridge (Anonymous)
- Upton (Timothy Swan)
- Victim divine, Thy grace we claim (Joseph Barnby)
- Wantage (James P. Carrell)
- Welsh (Come thou long expected Jesus) (Anonymous)
- Who are these arrayed in white? (Samuel Sebastian Wesley)
- Wilmington (Elkanah Dare)
- With glorious clouds encompassed round (James Leach)
- With solemn faith we offer up (Samuel Sebastian Wesley)
- Woodstock (Hezekiah Moors)
- Ye servants of God, your master proclaim (Anonymous)
- Ye that do your Master's will (Orlando Gibbons)
- Ye that pass by, behold the man (John Hawkins)
- Ye that pass by, behold the man (W. J. White)
- Ye virgin souls, arise (Thomas Clark)
Hymns
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Publications
External links
- Charles Wesley’s hymns at the Cyber Hymnal.