"What but the casting in of grace / This stony, iron heart, can raise, / To heavenly turn my earthly love, / And lift my soul to things above"
— Wesley, John and Charles
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Bristol
Publisher
Printed by E. Farley
Date
1762
Metaphor
"What but the casting in of grace / This stony, iron heart, can raise, / To heavenly turn my earthly love, / And lift my soul to things above"
Metaphor in Context
He cut down a stick, and cast it in, and the iron did swim.--vi. 6.
Deep sunk in nature's base desire,
The sinful mud, the worldly mire,
What but the casting in of grace
This stony, iron heart, can raise,
To heavenly turn my earthly love,
And lift my soul to things above?
(p. 185)
Deep sunk in nature's base desire,
The sinful mud, the worldly mire,
What but the casting in of grace
This stony, iron heart, can raise,
To heavenly turn my earthly love,
And lift my soul to things above?
(p. 185)
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "iron" in HDIS (Poetry); text confirmed in ECCO
Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1762, 1796).
See Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures. By Charles Wesley, M. A. and Presbyter of the Church of England., 2 vols. (Bristol: Printed by E. Farley, in Small-Street, 1762). <Link to ESTC>
See also Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures. By Charles Wesley, M. A. And Presbyter of the Church of England. (London: Printed by G. Paramore, North-Green, Moorfields; and sold by G. Whitfield, at the Chapel, City-Road; and at the Methodist preaching-houses in town and country, 1794-96). <Link to ESTC>
First found searching in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, ed. G. Osborn, 13 vols. (London: The Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868). <Link to Hathi Trust>
See Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures. By Charles Wesley, M. A. and Presbyter of the Church of England., 2 vols. (Bristol: Printed by E. Farley, in Small-Street, 1762). <Link to ESTC>
See also Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures. By Charles Wesley, M. A. And Presbyter of the Church of England. (London: Printed by G. Paramore, North-Green, Moorfields; and sold by G. Whitfield, at the Chapel, City-Road; and at the Methodist preaching-houses in town and country, 1794-96). <Link to ESTC>
First found searching in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, ed. G. Osborn, 13 vols. (London: The Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868). <Link to Hathi Trust>
Date of Entry
06/07/2005
