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I too, forewarned by Jesus' love

Author: Charles Wesley
Published in 6 hymnals

Author: Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, the son of Samuel Wesley, was born at Epworth, Dec. 18, 1707. He was educated at Westminster School and afterwards at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated M.A. In 1735, he took Orders and immediately proceeded with his brother John to Georgia, both being employed as missionaries of the S.P.G. He returned to England in 1736. For many years he engaged with his brother in preaching the Gospel. He died March 29, 1788. To Charles Wesley has been justly assigned the appellation of the "Bard of Methodism." His prominence in hymn writing may be judged from the fact that in the "Wesleyan Hymn Book," 623 of the 770 hymns were written by him; and he published more than thirty poetical works, written either by himself alone,… Go to person page >

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I too, forewarned by Jesus’ love. C. Wesley. [Death Anticipated.] The two closing hymns of the Official Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church, N. Y., 1878, are, "I too, forewarned by Jesus' love," and "In age and feebleness extreme." They are introduced by the following special note:—

"The following hymns were composed by Charles Wesley in extreme old age. The second hymn was his last utterance in verse, and was dictated on his death-bed."

With regard to "I too, forewarned by Jesus' love," it was published in C. Wesley's Short Hymns, &c, 1762, vol. ii. p. 397, No. 783, on 2 Peter i. 14, and in 2 stanzas of 4 lines (P. Works, 1868-72, vol. xiii. p. 191.) As C. Wesley was born in 1707, and died in 1788, this gives his age as 55 when the hymn was published, that is 28 years before he died. The hymn therefore was not written by him "in extreme old age." The statement concerning "In age and feebleness extreme" (q.v.), however, is correct.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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