Praying For Faith

Author: Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >

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First Line: While dead in trespasses I lie
Title: Praying For Faith
Author: Charles Wesley
Meter: 8.6.8.6
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social and Domestic Worship #d965

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social and Domestic Worship #d971

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #d972

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A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #416

A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in America #d385

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A Collection of Hymns for the use of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in America #310

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A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church #63b

A Collection of Hymns for the use of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. with a Supplement #d664

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A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists, with a Supplement #136

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A Collection of Hymns #L132

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A Collection of Hymns #63b

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A Collection of Hymns #136

A Selection of Hymns ... Supplement to the Methodist Pocket Hymn Book. 1st ed #d309

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A Selection of Hymns #162

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Hymn and Tune Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Round Note Ed.) #341

Hymn Book of the Holiness Movement Church #d563

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Hymn Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South #341

Hymns for the Use of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Impr. ed. #d546

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Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. ed. #310

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Hymns for the Worship of God #103

Hymns of Salvation #d123

Methodist Hymn and Tune Book #d868

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Methodist Hymn-Book #238

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Methodist Social Hymn Book #2

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New Hymn and Tune book #101d

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New Hymn and Tune Book #101d

The African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymn Book #d468

The American Hymn and Tune Book #d890

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The Heart and Voice #181b

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The Hymn Book of the African Methodist Episcopal Church #451

The Sacred Songster. 5th ed. #d194

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Worship in the School Room #4

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