[115]This verse is from the ‘hymn on my conversion,’ mentioned by C. Wesley in his Journal, May 23, 1738. It was written at Mr. Bray’s, Little Britain. Five verses are in the Methodist Hymn-book, 358.
[116]Watts wrote ‘very.’ ‘Every’ is Wesley’s emendation.
[117]I quote the following verse as an illustration: in doing so there is no risk of spoiling a hymn dear to anybody:—
Exempted from the general doom,
The death which all are born to know;
Enoch obtained his heavenly home
By faith, and disappeared below.
[118]Reprinted by Pickering in 1868 as ‘Bishop Ken’s Christian Year.’
[119]These hymns are in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739). The Epiphany hymn is in Church Hymns, 115, with alterations.
[120]Cf. Paradise Lost, bk. 1.