Lord, I believe a rest remains

Lord, I believe a rest remains. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). From Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), where it was entitled ‘Hebrews iv. 9. There remaineth therefore a Rest to the People of God.’ It had seventeen 4-line stanzas, beginning:   Lord, I believe a Rest remains    To all Thy People known,  A Rest, where Pure Enjoyment reigns,    And Thou art lov’d Alone. The 1780 Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists printed it in the section ‘For Believers Brought to the Birth’ in a text of eight stanzas, omitting a substantial section (stanzas 3-9) and then stanzas 12 and 16. John Telford (1934, p. 280) pointed out that John Wesley* used this hymn in A Plain Account of...

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