"Love Divine, All Loves Excelling" is a Christian hymn by Charles Wesley, first published in 1747. It was initially published as part of his Hymns for Those that Seek and Find and quickly became a cen
Charles Wesley
The hymn's lyrics refer to the heavenly host: "Thee we would be always blessing / serve thee with thy hosts above".
John Zundel, composer of the hymn tune "Beecher"
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"Fairest Isle" is one of the best-regarded songs by the 17th-century English composer Henry Purcell, a setting of words by John Dryden. It first appeared as a soprano solo in their semi-opera King Art
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
…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…
Portrait of Henry Purcell by John Closterman, c. 1695