[146]I am inclined to think there is a reference here to the ἀγρἁμματοί καὶ ἰδιῶται of Acts iv. 13.
[147]Trench’s Notes on the Parables.
[148]Charles Wesley wrote favour. John Wesley improved both the sense and sound by changing the word to mercy.
[149]Poetical Works, vol. x. p. 57. Charles Wesley wrote bleeds; the change to grieves was made in John Wesley’s hymn-book.
[150]Poetical Works, vol. i. p. 50.
[151]Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749); Poetical Works, vol. v. p. 306.
[152]Wesley included forty-nine hymns under the heading, ‘For Believers Groaning for Full Redemption,’ and twenty-six under the heading, ‘Believers Brought to the Birth.’ These sections were, later, united under the title, ‘Seeking for Full Redemption.’ The Methodist Hymn-book has forty-four, of which thirty-seven are Charles Wesley’s, three translations by John Wesley, two by Miss Havergal, one by Dr. Bonar, and one by T. Monod.
[153]Methodist Hymn-book, 905.
[154]Ibid., 88.
[155]The hymn, ‘When quiet in my house I sit,’ Methodist Hymn-book, 264, is made up of Nos. 300-303 in the Short Poems.