Jesus! the name high over all

Jesus! the name high over all. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749), the volume that was published by Charles with his brother's approval to help towards Charles’s marriage. The title was ‘After preaching (in a Church)’, in twenty-two 4-line stanzas. The first stanza was Jesu, accept the grateful Song  My Wisdom and my Might,’Tis Thou hast loos’d the stammering Tongue,  And taught my Hands to fight. The hymn as it is always known begins at stanza 9. In John Wesley*’s A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780), the hymn was reduced to seven stanzas (9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 18, and 22 of the original): Jesus, the name high...