![]() Many types of services profession of faith baptism other times of renewal Pentecost. With its many biblical allusions it has become a great favorite of many Christians. Through this jubilant, partly autobiographical text Wesley exalts his Redeemer and Lord. ![]() Wesley acquired the title phrase of this text from Peter Böhler, a Moravian, who said to Wesley, "If I had a thousand tongues, I would praise Christ with them all" (Böhler was actually quoting from Johann Mentzner's German hymn "O dass ich tausend Zungen hätte"). Stanza 7 is the doxology stanza that began the original hymn. The familiar hymn "Oh, for a Thousand Tongues" comes from stanzas 1 and 7-12 of this longer text (this pattern already occurs in Richard Conyers's Collection of Psalms and Hymns 1772). In 1739, for the first anniversary of his conversion, Charles Wesley ( PHH 267) wrote an eighteen-stanza text beginning "Glory to God, and praise and love." It was published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), a hymnal compiled by Wesley and his brother John.
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