COMPREHENDING

NOTICES OF THE POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOHN AND CHARLES WESLEY.

SHOWING THE ORIGIN OF THEIR HYMNS IN THE METHODIST
EPISCOPAL, METHODIST EPISCOPAL SOUTH, AND

WESLEYAN COLLECTIONS;

ALSO,

OF SUCH OTHER HYMNS AS ARE NOT WESLEYAN, IN THE METHODIST

EPISCOPAL HYMN-BOOK,
AND SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHORS ;

With Critical and Historical Observations.

BY DAVID CREAMER.

New-York:
PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR,

200 Mulberry-street.
JOSEPH LONGKING, PRINTER.

1848.

GTINITY ECHORN

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848,

BY DAVID CREAMER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of

New-York.

TO

REV. THOMAS B. SARGENT,

OF THE BALTIMORE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE METHODIST E. CHURCH,

This Volume,

THE RESULT OF SEVERAL YEARS' STUDY, COMMENCED AND COMPLETED,

WITH HIS AID AND ENCOURAGEMENT,

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

AS A TOKEN OF GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT,

BY HIS SINCERE FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR.