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- Love_Divine,_All_Loves_Excelling abstract ""Love Divine, All Loves Excelling" is a Christian hymn by Charles Wesley with a theme of 'Christian perfection."Judging by general repute, it is among Wesley's finest:"justly famous and beloved, better known than almost any other hymn of Charles Wesley."Judging by its distribution, it is also among his most successful: by the end of the 19th century, it is found in 15 of the 17 hymn books consulted by the authors of Lyric Studies.. On a larger scale, it is found almostuniversally in general collections of the past century, including not onlyMethodist and Anglican hymn books and commercial and ecumenical collections, but also hymnals associated with Reformed, Presbyterian, Baptist, Brethren, Lutheran, Congregationalist, Pentecostal, and Roman Catholic traditions, among others; including the Churches of Christ.specifically, it appears in 1,328 of theNorth American hymnals indexed by the online Dictionary of North American Hymnology, comparable toNewton's "Amazing Grace" (1,036), Wesley's "O for a Thousand Tongues" (1,249),and Watts' "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" (1,483), though still well shortof Toplady's "Rock of Ages" (2,139) or Wesley's own "Jesu, Lover of my Soul" (2,164).It first appeared in Wesley's Hymns for those that Seek, and those that Have Redemption (Bristol, 1747), apparently intended as a Christianization of the song "Fairest Isle" sung by Venus in Act 5 of John Dryden and Henry Purcell's semi-opera King Arthur (1691), on which Wesley's first stanza is modelled.Wesley wrote:Love Divine, all Loves excelling,Joy of Heaven to Earth come down,Fix in us thy humble Dwelling,All thy faithful Mercies crown;Dryden had written:Fairest Isle, all Isles Excelling,Seat of Pleasures, and of Loves;Venus here, will chuse her Dwelling,And forsake her Cyprian Groves.In Dryden's song, the goddess of love chooses the Isle of Britain over her native Cyprus; in Wesley's hymn divine love itself is asked to choose the human heart as its residence over its native heaven.The last lines of the hymn are likewise adapted from existing material. Wesley's final lines,Till we cast our Crowns before Thee,Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise!evidently derive from (and improve on) Addison's opening lines from his "Hymn on Gratitude to the Deity"When all thy mercies, O my God,My rising soul surveys;Transported with the view, I'm lostIn wonder, love, and praise.It has been suggested that Wesley's words were written specifically for the tune by Purcell to which Dryden's song had been set, and to which the hymn's words themselves were later set (under the tune name "Westminster") by John Wesley in his Sacred Melody, the "annex" to his Select Hymns with tunes annext (1761 et seq.).Like many hymns, Love Divine is loosely Trinitarian in organization: Christ is invoked in the first stanza as the expression of divine love; the Holy Spirit in the second stanza as the agent of sanctification; the Father in the third stanza as the source of life; and the Trinity (presumably) in the final stanza as the joint Creator of the New Creation. Like many hymns, too, this one is a tissue of Biblical quotations, including "Alpha and Omega" (st. 2) as an epithet of Christ, from Revelation 21:6; the casting of crowns before God's throne (st. 4), from Revelation 4:10; the promise that Christians shall be "changed from glory into glory" (st. 2 and 4), from 2 Corinthians 3:18; as well as other, more general allusions.".
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- Love_Divine,_All_Loves_Excelling comment ""Love Divine, All Loves Excelling" is a Christian hymn by Charles Wesley with a theme of 'Christian perfection."Judging by general repute, it is among Wesley's finest:"justly famous and beloved, better known than almost any other hymn of Charles Wesley."Judging by its distribution, it is also among his most successful: by the end of the 19th century, it is found in 15 of the 17 hymn books consulted by the authors of Lyric Studies..".
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