Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wesley, Charles
• Russell, Ezekiel
• Whitefield, George
• Green, John
• Russell, Joseph

Titel

A funeral hymn : composed by that eminent servant of the most high God, the late Reverend and Renowned George Whitefield, Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Countess of Huntingdon, &c., &c. Who departed this life in full assurance of a better, on Lord's Day, the thirtieth of September, 1770 ... at Newbury-Port, in New-England.--This hymn was designed to have been sung over his corpse, by the orphans belonging to his tabernacle in London, had this great, pious, and learned man died there [Elektronische Ressource]

Ort / Verlag

[Boston] : Sold at Green & Russell's, in Queen-Street

Erscheinungsjahr

1770

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Bristol, B3288. - English Short Title Catalog, W17556. - Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1556. - Hymn in twelve numbered stanzas; first line: Ah! lovely appearance of death! - "Though the title of this hymn states that the author was George Whitefield, it was first printed in the first series of Charles Wesley's funeral hymns. .. See also Charles Wesley's 'Journal,' vol. 1, 1849, p. 379, for the occasion which inspired the poem."--Sabin, entry 102643. - Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library. - Shipton & Mooney, 42187. - Text in two columns within mourning borders; relief cut of a coffin at head
• Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[1770?]
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