O Love Divine, what hast thou done

O Love Divine, what hast thou done. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1742) in four 6-line stanzas. It was included in John Wesley’s A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780), in the section entitled ‘Describing the Goodness of God’, and it has appeared in subsequent Methodist hymnbooks and in several others, including those of Anglican and evangelical provenance. The 1742 text was as follows, with the exclamation marks emphasising the astonishment: O Love Divine, what hast Thou done!  Th’immortal God hath died for Me!The Father’s Co-Eternal Son  Bore all my Sins upon the Tree:Th’Immortal God for me hath died!My Lord, my...