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Diarmaid MacCulloch suggests that the hymn is one of the best-loved of Wesley's six thousand hymns. [5] "And Can It Be?" was the source for Phillips, Craig & Dean's 2003 Contemporary Christian song "You Are My King (Amazing Love)". The Newsboys' cover of the song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Christian songs chart. [6] [7]
The words to many more of Charles Wesley's hymns can be found on Wikisource, [23] and in his many publications. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Some 150 of his hymns are in the Methodist hymn book Hymns and Psalms , including "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing", and The Church Hymn Book (In New York and Chicago, US, 1872) where "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" is published.
"The Water Is Wide" may be considered a family of lyrics with a particular hymn-like tune. [1]"O Waly Waly" (Wail, Wail) may be sometimes a particular lyric, sometimes a family tree of lyrics, sometimes "Jamie Douglas", sometimes one melody or another with the correct meter, and sometimes versions of the modern compilation "The Water Is Wide" (usually with the addition of the verse starting "O ...
Pages in category "Hymns by Charles Wesley" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Love Divine, All Loves Excelling; O. O for a Thousand ...
O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing" is a Christian hymn written by Charles Wesley. [1] [2] The hymn was placed first in John Wesley's A Collection of Hymns for the People Called Methodists published in 1780. It was the first hymn in every Methodist hymnal from that time until the publication of Hymns and Psalms in 1983. [3]
"Love Divine, All Loves Excelling" is a Christian hymn by Charles Wesley, first published in 1747. It was initially published as part of his Hymns for Those that Seek and Find and quickly became a central hymn in both Methodist and wider Christian worship.
Hyfrydol has been used as a setting for William Chatterton Dix's hymn "Alleluia! Sing to Jesus", Charles Wesley's "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling" and "Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus", Francis Harold Rowley's "I Will Sing the Wondrous Story" (1886), John Wilbur Chapman's "Our Great Savior (Jesus What A Friend of Sinners)" (1910) and Philip Bliss's "I Will Sing of My Redeemer" (1876), the ...
The text has its origins in a hymn "Lo! He cometh, countless Trumpets" by John Cennick published in his Collection of Sacred Hymns of 1752. [1] This was substantially revised by Charles Wesley for publication in Hymns of intercession for all mankind of 1758. [2] [3] Some hymnals present a combination of the two texts. [2]