In weariness and pain

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In weariness and pain

Author: Charles Wesley
Published in 14 hymnals

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1 In weariness and pain,
By sins and fears oppressed,
I turn me to my Rest again,
My soul's eternal Rest.

2 The Lamb that died for me,
And still my load doth bear;
To Jesus' streaming wounds I flee,
And find my quiet there.

3 Jesus, was ever grief,
Was ever love like Thine?
Thy sorrow, Lord, is my relief,
Thy life hath ransomed mine.

4 O may I rise with Thee,
And soar to things above,
And spend a blest eternity
In praise of dying love.

Source: Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-book #504

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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:	In weariness and pain
Author:	Charles Wesley
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

In weariness and pain. C. Wesley. [Rest in Trouble.] From Hymns & Sacred Poems, 1749, vol. i., No. 121, in an altered form in a few collections in America.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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DENNIS (Nägeli)

Lowell Mason (PHH 96) arranged DENNIS and first published it in The Psaltery (1845), a hymnal he compiled with George. Webb (PHH 559). Mason attributed the tune to Johann G. Nageli (b. Wetzikon, near Zurich, Switzerland, 1773; d. Wetzikon, 1836) but included no source reference. Nageli presumably pu…

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WOOLWICH (Kettle)

GOLDEN HILL

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