Hail, Holy Ghost, Jehovah, Third. S. Wesley, jun. [Adoration of the Holy Ghost.] This companion hymn to the author’s “Hail, Father,” &c. and “Hail, God the Son,” &c., was first published in his Poems, &c, 1736, and repeated in J. Wesley's Psalms & Hymns, Charlestown, South Carolina, 1736-7, No; 13, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, and entitled, "Hymn to God the Holy Ghost." It was repeated in the 2nd edition of the author's Poems, &c, 1743; and in Nicholls's reprint, 1862. Although included in Toplady's Psalms & Hymns, 1776, No 191, it was not given in the Wesleyan Hymn Book until the Supplement of 1830, No. 649 (revised edition, 1875, No. 750).
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Samuel Wesley, M.A., the younger, was the eldest child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born in or near London in 1691. He received his early education from his mother, who always took a special interest in him as her firstborn. In 1704 he went to Westminster School, where he was elected King's Scholar in 1707. Westminster had, under the mastership of Dr. Busby for 55 years, attained the highest reputation for scholarship, and Samuel Wesley, as a classical scholar, was not unworthy of his school. In 1709, Dr. Spratt, Bishop of Rochester, patronised the young scholar, and frequently invited him to Bromley. In 1711 he went with a Westminster studentship to Christ Church, Oxford, and having taken his degree, returned to Westminster as an… Go to person page >
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