O Love Divine, how sweet thou art
O Love Divine, how sweet thou art. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788).
First printed in Hymns on the Great Festivals, and Other Occasions (1746), the book in which Wesley’s hymns were set to music by John Frederick Lampe*, where it was ‘Hymn xix. Desiring to Love’. It was subsequently in Volumr I of Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749), the book which Charles published with his brother’s spproval. It had seven stanzas. The most frequent selection is that of stanzas 1-4:
O Love Divine, how Sweet Thou art!When shall I find my longing Heart All taken up by Thee?I thirst, I faint, and die, to proveThe Greatness of Redeeming Love, The Love of Christ to me.
Stronger his Love, than Death or Hell;Its...
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