His Work

Come, Holy Ghost, all-quickening fire, Come, and my hallowed heart inspire

Author: Charles Wesley
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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, Holy Ghost, all-quickening fire, Come, and my hallowed heart inspire
Title: His Work
Author: Charles Wesley
Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

Come, Holy Ghost, all quickening fire; Come, and my hallowed, &c. C. Wesley. [Whitsuntide.] A "Hymn to God the Sanctifier," first published in Hymns & Sacred Poems, 1740, p. 45, in 8 stanzas of 6 lines, and again in the Wesleyan Hymn Book, 1780, No. 341 (Poetical Works, 1868-72, vol. i. p. 240). In the American Methodist Episcopal Hymns, 1849, stanzas iv., v., vii., viii. are given as "Humble and teachable, and mild."

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Small Church Music #6521
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