Vernacular hymns arise early in the Reformation and are given fixed ... Hymnody flourished in the 18th C with notable hymnists such as Charles and John Wesley, Isaac Watts, William Cowper, John Newton ...

John Wesley died in London in 1791 at the age of 87. His searching heart had been “strangely warmed” and became a blazing ...

An original manuscript from the 7000 hymns written by Charles Wesley (1707-88), one of the founders of MethodismCharles Wesley, brother to John, wrote this and many similar hymns while in Bristol.

In appearance John Wesley was short with auburn (later white ... A prolific poet, Charles Wesley wrote more than 6000 hymns (among them 'Hark, the herald angels sing' and 'Love divine, all loves ...