Excerpt from The Latin Hymns in the Wesleyan Hymn Book: Studies in Hymnology

In the Hymn Book published by John Wesley in 1779, which, with a few hymns subsequently added, continued in common use among "the people called Methodists" till 1830, there are, as might be expected, no hymns from the Latin. The time for this had not yet come. The treasures of Latin hymnody were practically unknown, and many things must happen before either English Churchmen or Nonconformists would care to explore them. It was in a different direction, as is well known, that Wesley turned in search of hymns that might be sung in the Societies under his care along with those of his brother Charles, of Watts, and of Doddridge.

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