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Title	On the death of Mrs. Hannah Dewal
Post Date	1771
Author	Wesley, Charles, 1707-1788
Recipient	Dewal, Hannah, d. 1771
Date	1771-00-00
Physical Description	7 pgs text
Dimensions	21 cm
Location (Box, File)	Box 1, File 2
Transcriber	Wanda Smith
Transcription	On the Death of Mrs Hannah Dewal Farewell, thou best of friends, farewell. (Since God revokes his richest loan) Return, with kindred souls to dwell, As pure and upright as thine own! No longer could our prayers detain The pilgrim from her heavenly rest: Go, blessed saint, with Christ to reign, And lean forever on his breast! 2. In hope to share thy happiness We check the unsung selfish sigh, Restraining nature’s soft excess, The tears commanding from our eye: When Jesus to Himself doth take A vessel of his glorious love, Tis sacriledge to wish her back And rob the sanctuary above. 3. Yet will we on her image dwell The pattern fair she left behind, Her genuine faith and tempered zeal, Her noble, free, Berean mind, Her diligence to search the word If man his pardoned sin may know: She sought, till there she found her Lord And held, and never let him go. 4. [sic] On Him she fixed her single eye, And steady in his steps went on, Studious by works to testify The power of God in weakness shewn; A quiet follower of the Lamb, She walked in Him she had received, And more and more confessed his name, And more and more like Jesus lived. 5. No sudden fits of rapt’rous love, No instanteous warmth she knew But shewed her heart was fixed above And poorer still and poorer grew: The seed increased, she knew not how, Nor aimed her Saviour’s work to explain, Nor tempted him by nature’s Now, But waited all his mind to gain. 6. Transparent as the crystal stream, Her life in even tenor flowed. Careful to be and not to seem, Whatever she was, she was to God; Superior to reproach and praise, By no fantastic impulse driven, As unperceived she ran her race, As rapid as the orbs in of heaven. 7. Thither her godlike spirit soared Above all pride, all wrath, all fear, She held communion with her Lord, Yet suffered with his members here: At every shape of woe distrest, How did her yearing bowels move! Soft pity filled her generous breast And mixed the eagle with the dove. 8. For friendship formed her swelling heart With pure enlarged affection glowed, She could not give her friend a part, Because she gave the whole to God: She grasped her friend with love entire, Inkindled at the Saviour’s throne, A spark of that celestial fire, A ray of that eternal sun! 9. Could actions, words, or looks express How warm, how boundless her esteem? Her soul’s delight to oblige and please Bliss to impart her joy supreme: Say you who shared that angel here Whom neither life nor death disjoin, Was ever transport more sincere, Was ever friendship more divine! Part II Celestial charity expands The heart to all the ransomed race; Tho’ knit to one in closest bands Her soul doth every soul embrace. She no unkind exception makes A childlike follower of her God, The world into her heart she takes The purchase dear of Jesus blood. 2. She loved even that most straitened sect Who every other church disown Who all beside themselves reject As heaven were bought for them alone: With noble frankness she confessed Good out of Babylon might come, And cherished in her candid breast The warmest partizan of Rome. 3. But numbered with the British sheep, She prized, and held the blessing fast, Resolved her privilege to keep, Till all the storms of life were past; She kept the faith at first received, (Not judging those who turned aside) A daughter of our Zion lived A mother of our Israel died. 4. Warned of her dissolution near, By waning strength and lingering pain, She blessed the welcome messenger, (To live was Christ, to die was gain) Made ready for her heavenly Lord, Who came his servant to release; Her lamp, with holy oil was stored, Her mind preserved in perfect peace. 5. She cast the tempting foe behind Who preached in her last sacred hours “Now, now, believe again, and find Sensations new, and wondrous powers:” In vain to instantaneous pride He urged a saint of Christ possesed With ease she turned the dart aside, And closer clave to Jesus breast. 6. Her humble confidence she held, Built on a Rock that could not move And conscious of her pardon sealed, And filled with purity of love, The world with widespread arms embraced Partaker of her Saviour’s mind, And dying, all her soul confessed Alike drawn out to all mankind. 7. To bear her to those endless joys While Israel’s fiery car attends, The precious moments she employs In dealing blessings to her friends In counsels kind as each had need, In witnessing the truth of grace, While angels crowd around her bed, And heaven is opened in her face. 8. “My Master calls! at his command “Joyful I drop this earthly clod; “My roll I carry in my hand “Tis wrote, and signed, and sealed with blood! “My way, she cries, is strewed with flowers My pleasant path before me lies! And leads to amaranthine bowers And leads to Christ in paradise. 9. When language failed, her silence spoke, In meekest majesty of Love, On opening heaven she fixed her look Like angels worshipping above; Full of unutterable awe Her look the Invisible declared, As bringing, in the sight she saw Her righteous crown, her vast reward! 10. That vision of the One in Three Sweetly dissolves the human shrine It swallows up mortality In joy ineffably divine That sight too strong for life to bear Her true eternal life displays And, eagle-like she cleaves the air, And mingles with the glorious blaze!
Digital Resource Type	Image
Digitization Date	Digitized: 2003
Digitization Process	Digitization process: Derivatives resized at 4037 pixels high or wide
Digital Publisher	Bridwell Library, Special Collections; Perkins School of Theology; Southern Methodist University
Rights	Permission to publish materials must be obtained from the Head of Special Collections of the Bridwell Library
Decade	1770-1779

Title	On the death of Mrs. Hannah Dewal, Pages 4, 5
Post Date	1771
Author	Wesley, Charles, 1707-1788
Recipient	Dewal, Hannah, d. 1771
Date	1771-00-00
Physical Description	7 pgs text
Dimensions	21 cm
Location (Box, File)	Box 1, File 2
Transcriber	Wanda Smith
Transcription	On the Death of Mrs Hannah Dewal Farewell, thou best of friends, farewell. (Since God revokes his richest loan) Return, with kindred souls to dwell, As pure and upright as thine own! No longer could our prayers detain The pilgrim from her heavenly rest: Go, blessed saint, with Christ to reign, And lean forever on his breast! 2. In hope to share thy happiness We check the unsung selfish sigh, Restraining nature’s soft excess, The tears commanding from our eye: When Jesus to Himself doth take A vessel of his glorious love, Tis sacriledge to wish her back And rob the sanctuary above. 3. Yet will we on her image dwell The pattern fair she left behind, Her genuine faith and tempered zeal, Her noble, free, Berean mind, Her diligence to search the word If man his pardoned sin may know: She sought, till there she found her Lord And held, and never let him go. 4. [sic] On Him she fixed her single eye, And steady in his steps went on, Studious by works to testify The power of God in weakness shewn; A quiet follower of the Lamb, She walked in Him she had received, And more and more confessed his name, And more and more like Jesus lived. 5. No sudden fits of rapt’rous love, No instanteous warmth she knew But shewed her heart was fixed above And poorer still and poorer grew: The seed increased, she knew not how, Nor aimed her Saviour’s work to explain, Nor tempted him by nature’s Now, But waited all his mind to gain. 6. Transparent as the crystal stream, Her life in even tenor flowed. Careful to be and not to seem, Whatever she was, she was to God; Superior to reproach and praise, By no fantastic impulse driven, As unperceived she ran her race, As rapid as the orbs in of heaven. 7. Thither her godlike spirit soared Above all pride, all wrath, all fear, She held communion with her Lord, Yet suffered with his members here: At every shape of woe distrest, How did her yearing bowels move! Soft pity filled her generous breast And mixed the eagle with the dove. 8. For friendship formed her swelling heart With pure enlarged affection glowed, She could not give her friend a part, Because she gave the whole to God: She grasped her friend with love entire, Inkindled at the Saviour’s throne, A spark of that celestial fire, A ray of that eternal sun! 9. Could actions, words, or looks express How warm, how boundless her esteem? Her soul’s delight to oblige and please Bliss to impart her joy supreme: Say you who shared that angel here Whom neither life nor death disjoin, Was ever transport more sincere, Was ever friendship more divine! Part II Celestial charity expands The heart to all the ransomed race; Tho’ knit to one in closest bands Her soul doth every soul embrace. She no unkind exception makes A childlike follower of her God, The world into her heart she takes The purchase dear of Jesus blood. 2. She loved even that most straitened sect Who every other church disown Who all beside themselves reject As heaven were bought for them alone: With noble frankness she confessed Good out of Babylon might come, And cherished in her candid breast The warmest partizan of Rome. 3. But numbered with the British sheep, She prized, and held the blessing fast, Resolved her privilege to keep, Till all the storms of life were past; She kept the faith at first received, (Not judging those who turned aside) A daughter of our Zion lived A mother of our Israel died. 4. Warned of her dissolution near, By waning strength and lingering pain, She blessed the welcome messenger, (To live was Christ, to die was gain) Made ready for her heavenly Lord, Who came his servant to release; Her lamp, with holy oil was stored, Her mind preserved in perfect peace. 5. She cast the tempting foe behind Who preached in her last sacred hours “Now, now, believe again, and find Sensations new, and wondrous powers:” In vain to instantaneous pride He urged a saint of Christ possesed With ease she turned the dart aside, And closer clave to Jesus breast. 6. Her humble confidence she held, Built on a Rock that could not move And conscious of her pardon sealed, And filled with purity of love, The world with widespread arms embraced Partaker of her Saviour’s mind, And dying, all her soul confessed Alike drawn out to all mankind. 7. To bear her to those endless joys While Israel’s fiery car attends, The precious moments she employs In dealing blessings to her friends In counsels kind as each had need, In witnessing the truth of grace, While angels crowd around her bed, And heaven is opened in her face. 8. “My Master calls! at his command “Joyful I drop this earthly clod; “My roll I carry in my hand “Tis wrote, and signed, and sealed with blood! “My way, she cries, is strewed with flowers My pleasant path before me lies! And leads to amaranthine bowers And leads to Christ in paradise. 9. When language failed, her silence spoke, In meekest majesty of Love, On opening heaven she fixed her look Like angels worshipping above; Full of unutterable awe Her look the Invisible declared, As bringing, in the sight she saw Her righteous crown, her vast reward! 10. That vision of the One in Three Sweetly dissolves the human shrine It swallows up mortality In joy ineffably divine That sight too strong for life to bear Her true eternal life displays And, eagle-like she cleaves the air, And mingles with the glorious blaze!
Digital Resource Type	Image
Digitization Date	Digitized: 2003
Digitization Process	Digitization process: Derivatives resized at 4037 pixels high or wide
Digital Publisher	Bridwell Library, Special Collections; Perkins School of Theology; Southern Methodist University
Rights	Permission to publish materials must be obtained from the Head of Special Collections of the Bridwell Library
Decade	1770-1779

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