Excerpt from Methodist HymnologyPart third. This part of the work - although in reference to some hymns similar statements are repeated - contains the greatest variety of topics, and by many will be considered the most valuable, if this term may be applied to any portion of it. The hymns in the Methodist Episcopal Hymn-book are noticed in consecutive order, the original title of each hymn is given, when there is one, the text of Scripture on which founded, whether the hymn be a paraphrase of a number of verses, or a dilatation of a single verse, or part of a verse the full number of original stanzas, notices of alterations, omissions, emendations, &c., occasional defects developed, beauties exhibited, sublime passages of thought or expression pointed out, omitted stanzas of a remarkable character, and there are many such, are inserted, some of which will be found necessary to a proper understand ing of those that have been retained, occasional observations, eriti cal, historical, and exegetical, are introduced, parallel passages from our poet and the best English poets, living and dead, are quoted, showing a remarkable coincidence in thought and ex pression, from which it will appear that in plethory of poetic inspiration, sublimity of matter and conception, and classical purity of style, Wesley was in all respects their equal.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.