The Backslider's confession

Savior, I now with shame confess My thirst for creature happiness

Author: Charles Wesley
Published in 35 hymnals

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 >

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First Line: Savior, I now with shame confess My thirst for creature happiness
Title: The Backslider's confession
Author: Charles Wesley
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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A Collection of Hymns Adapted to the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church #d502

A Collection of Hymns Adapted to the use of the Methodist Episcopal Church Including the Whole Collection of the Rev. J. Wesley #ad502

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social and Domestic Worship #d711

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social and Domestic Worship #d715

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #d715

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A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #448

A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in America #d300

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A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church #94

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A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church #94

A Collection of Hymns for the use of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. with a Supplement #d512

A Collection of Hymns for the use of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America #d438

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A Collection of Hymns #L175

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A Collection of Hymns #94

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A Collection of Hymns #179

A Selection of Hymns ... Supplement to the Methodist Pocket Hymn Book. 1st ed #d231

A Selection of Hymns from Various Authors, Designed as a Supplement to the Methodist Pocket Hymn Book. 3rd ed. #d236

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Hymn and Tune Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Round Note Ed.) #363

Hymn Book of the Colored M.E. Church in America #d444

Hymn Book of the Holiness Movement Church #d430

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Hymn Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South #363

Hymns for the Use of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Impr. ed. #d411

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Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. ed. #868

Methodist Hymn and Tune Book #d679

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New Hymn and Tune book #165d

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Salvation Army Songs #197

The American Hymn and Tune Book #d667

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The Heart and Voice #62c

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The Reformed Methodist Pocket Hymnal #I.37

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Wesleyan Hymn and Tune Book #12f

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A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists, with a Supplement #180

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A Collection of Hymns, for the use of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America. #422

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A Collection of Hymns for the use of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in America #868

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New Hymn and Tune Book #165d

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The Hymn Book of the African Methodist Episcopal Church #522

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Methodist Hymn-Book #286

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