Author of faith, Eternal Word. C. Wesley. [Faith.] This poem is a paraphrase of Hebrews 11. It appeared in 88 stanzas of 4 lines in Hymns & Sacred Poems, 1740, with the title "The Life of Faith." In 1780 John Wesley gave stanzas i.-vi. as No. 92 in the Wesleyan Hymn Book (ed. 1875, No. 95). From the Wesleyan Hymn Book it has passed into most of the collections of the Methodist denominations in Great Britain and America, and also into other hymnals. Full original text in Poetical Works, 1868-72, vol. i. pp. 209-221. The poem as a whole is criticised in the Wesleyan Magazine, 1839, p. 381.
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