God of unexampled grace

God of unexampled grace. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published as Hymn XXI in Hymns on the Lord’s Supper (1745) in nine 8-line stanzas, in the section entitled ‘As it [the Sacrament] is a Memorial of the Sufferings and Death of Christ’. Though it was not included in John Wesley’s A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780), it appeared in the 1831 Supplement, divided into two hymns. The first, consisting of stanzas 1-3 of the original, had earlier been included by Martin Madan* in his Collection of Psalms and Hymns (1760). The second, stanzas 4-9, was not retained in any subsequent hymnal. Stanzas 1-3 have remained in use, largely in Methodist hymnals,...