God of Israel's faithful three. C. Wesley. [Three Hebrew Children.] Appeared in the Hymns & Sacred Poems, 1742, p. 213, in 5 stanzas of 8 lines, with the title, "The Three Children in the Fiery Furnace" (Poetical Works, 1868-72, vol. ii. p. 267). In 1780 it was given with slight alterations and the omission of stanza ii. in the Wesleyan Hymn Book, No. 349, and this arrangement has been repeated in several Methodist collections. In the revised Wesleyan Hymn Book , 1875, No. 359, stanzas i.-iii. only are given, whilst the American Methodist Episcopal Hymnal, 1878, No. 677, has stanzas i., iii.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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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