The Perfect Rest From Sin

Jesus, my Lord, I cry to thee

Author: Charles Wesley
Tune: ST. STEPHEN (Jones)
Published in 22 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: Jesus, my Lord, I cry to thee
Title: The Perfect Rest From Sin
Author: Charles Wesley
Meter: 8.6.8.6
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

Jesus, my Lord, I cry to Thee. C. Wesley. [For Sanctification.] This cento is from his Short Hymns on Select Passages of Holy Scriptures, 1762, as follows:—
Stanzas i., ii., Short Hymns, &c, vol. ii., No. 299, on St. John ix. 25.
Stanzas iii., iv., Short Hymns, &c, vol. i., No. 341, on Deut. xxxii. 39.
Stanzas v., vi., Short Hymns, &c, vol. i., No. 1004, on Isaiah xxvii. 3.
In this form it appeared in the Wesleyan Hymn Book 1780, No. 397, and has passed into several collections (Orig. text, Poetical Works, 1868-72, vols. ix. and xiii.).

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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A Collection of Hymns Adapted to the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church #d279

A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in America #d176

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A Collection of Hymns for the use of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in America #521

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A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church #348

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A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church #348

A Collection of Hymns for the use of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. with a Supplement #d291

A Collection of Hymns for the use of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America #d258

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A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists, with a Supplement #409

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A Collection of Hymns, for the use of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America. #379

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A Collection of Hymns #348

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A Collection of Hymns #405

Hymn Book of the Holiness Movement Church #d247

Hymns for the Use of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Impr. ed. #d240

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Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. ed. #521

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New Hymn and Tune book #19b

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New Hymn and Tune Book #19b

The American Hymn and Tune Book #d371

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The Heart and Voice #149c

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The Hymn Book of the Free Methodist Church #467

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