List of Wesley Hymn Collections

 

Only first editions are listed here, unless otherwise noted. Complicating matters, the brothers would sometimes reuse the same title but with different contents. For a more detailed assessment of editions and revisions, see the online edition of Wesley hymns edited by Randy L. Maddox.

For a list of which hymns appeared in which collections, see John Julian’s Dictionary of Hymnology (1892), pp. 1259–1266 (here), or see the comprehensive index compiled by Randy Maddox (here). For a detailed index of Wesleyan hymns based on Scriptures, see S.T. Kimbrough, The Lyrical Theology of Charles Wesley, Expanded Ed. (2013), pp. 292–381.

 

Collection of Psalms and Hymns (1737): PDF
Collection of Psalms and Hymns (1738)
Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739): PDF
Free Grace (sermon + hymn, 1739): PDF
The Means of Grace (pamphlet, 1740)
The Life of Faith (pamphlet, 1740)
Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740): PDF
Collection of Psalms and Hymns (1741; 2nd ed., 1743): PDF
Hymns on God's Everlasting Love (1741): PDF
Christian Perfection (sermon + hymn, 1741): PDF
A Collection of Tunes, Set to Music, As They Are Commonly Sung at the Foundery (1742): PDF
Hymns and Sacred Poems (1742): PDF
Collection of Hymns (1742): PDF
Hymns on God’s Everlasting Love (1742): PDF
The Whole Armour of God (broadsheet, 1742)
The Taking of Jericho (broadsheet, 1742)
Elegy on the Death of Robert Jones (1742): PDF
Fourteenth Chapter of Isaiah (broadsheet, 1742)
Thanksgiving for the Colliers (leaflet, 1742)
Hymn for Condemned Prisoners (leaflet, 1742)
Nature, Design, and General Rules of the United Societies (tract + hymn, 1743): PDF
An Earnest Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion (tract + hymn, 2nd ed.): PDF
Hymn for Christmas Day (broadsheet, 1743)
Collection of Moral and Sacred Poems (1744)

Volume 1: PDF
Volume 2: PDF
Volume 3: PDF

Hymns for Times of Trouble (1744): WorldCat
Hymns for Times of Trouble and Persecution (1744): PDF
An Extract of the Reverend Mr. John Wesley's Journal [from 1739–1741] (+ hymn, 1744): WorldCat
Hymns for Christmas Day (1744)
A Farther Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion (tract + hymn, 1745): PDF
Hymns on the Lord’s Supper (1745): PDF
A Short View of the Difference between the Moravian Brethren (tract + hymns, 1745): PDF
Hymns from Jeremiah (pamphlet, 1745)
A Word in Season (tract + hymns, 1745): PDF
Hymns for the Nativity of our Lord (1745): PDF
Word to a Protestant (tract + hymns, 1745): PDF
Hymns for Times of Trouble and Persecution, 2nd ed. (1745): PDF
Funeral Hymns (1746): PDF
Hymns for Our Lord’s Resurrection (1746): PDF
Hymns for Ascension Day (1746; 2nd ed., 1747): PDF
Hymns of Petition and Thanksgiving for the Promise of Father (1746): PDF
Hymns on the Great Festivals (1746): PDF
Hymns for the Public Thanksgiving Day (1746): PDF
Gloria Patri; or Hymns to the Trinity (1746): PDF
Graces Before and After Meat (1747): PDF
Hymn at the Sacrament (ca. 1747): PDF
Hymns for Children (ca. 1747)
Hymns and Sacred Poems (1747): PDF
A Letter to the Right Reverend, the Lord Bishop of London (tract + hymn, 1747): PDF
Hymns for Those that Seek and Those that have Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ (1747): PDF
Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749)

Volume 1: PDF
Volume 2: PDF

A Collection of Hymns and Sacred Poems (with tunes, Dublin, 1749): WorldCat
Hymns on the Occasion of His Being Prosecuted in Ireland as a Vagabond
(unpublished, 1749)
Hymns for New Year’s Day
(1749/50): PDF
Hymns for the Watch-night (1750): PDF
Hymns Occasioned by the Earthquake (1750)

Part 1: PDF
Part 2: PDF
Part 1, Added an Hymn ... Occasioned by the Destruction of Lisbon (1756): PDF
Part 2, Added an Hymn for the English in America (1756): PDF

A Short Account of God’s Dealings with Mr. Thomas Hogg (+ hymn, 1750): PDF
Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1753): PDF
An Answer to Rev. Dr. Gill (1754): PDF
An Epistle to the Reverend Mr. John Wesley (a poem, 1755): PDF
Catholic Spirit (sermon + hymn, 1755): WorldCat
Hymns for the Year 1756 (1756): PDF
Hymns of Intercession for all Mankind (1758): PDF
Hymns of Intercession for the Kingdom of England (1759): PDF
Funeral Hymns (1759; 1769): PDF
Hymns on the Expected Invasion (1759): PDF
The Case of the Unhappy People of Custrin (tract + hymn, 1759): PDF
Hymns to be Used on the Thanksgiving Day (1759): WorldCat
Reasons against a Separation from the Church of England . . . with Hymns for the Preachers (1760): PDF
Hymns for Those to Whom Christ is All in All (1761): PDF
Select Hymns, with Tunes Annext (1761): Archive.org | (3rd ed., 1770): PDF
Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762)

Volume 1: PDF
Volume 2: PDF

Hymns for Children (1763): PDF
Twelve Hymns (Music by J. Battishill, ca. 1765): PDF
Hymns for the Use of Families (1767): PDF
Hymns on the Trinity (1767): WorldCat
A Short Account of the Death of Mary Langson (+ hymn, 1770; 1775): PDF
A Sermon on the Death of the Rev. Mr George Whitefield (+ hymn, 1770): PDF
An Elegy on the late Reverend George Whitefield (1771): PDF
An Epistle to the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield (a poem, 1771): PDF
Preparation for Death, in Several Hymns (1772): PDF
Arminian Magazine (1778–1791): HathiTrust
Ode on the Death of Dr. Boyce (1779): PDF
A Hymn for the Rev. John Wesley (1779)
Hymns Written in the Time of the Tumults (1780): WorldCat
A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists

1st ed. (1780): PDF
2nd ed. (1781): PDF
3rd ed. (1782): PDF
4th ed. (1784): PDF
5th ed. (1786): PDF
6th ed. (1788): PDF
7th ed. (1791): PDF

Sacred Harmony: or, a choice Collection of Psalms and Hymns set to Music

(1780): Archive.org [1st ed.]
(ca. 1789): HathiTrust [Revised ed.]
(1822): [edited by Charles Wesley Jr.]

The Protestant Association (1781): PDF
Hymns for the Nation, Parts 1 & 2 (1782): PDF
Hymns for the National Fast (1782): PDF
A Collection of Psalms and Hymns (1784): PDF
Prayers for Condemned Malefactors (1785): PDF
Pocket Hymn Book

(1785): PDF
(1787): PDF

 

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