

Several members of the Wesley family are significant figures in the history of English hymnody, and none more so than Charles Wesley. Service of confession and forgiveness adult baptism in conjunction with doctrinal preaching many other occasions. Wesley's use of metaphors is also noteworthy – he deftly contrasts light and darkness, life and death, slavery and freedom, and especially Christ's righteousness and our unrighteousness. Like so many of Charles Wesley's hymn texts, "And Can It Be" is full of allusions to and quotations from Scripture a few of the more obvious texts are Philippians 2:7, Acts 12:6-8, Romans 8:1, and Hebrews 4:16. Traditionally one of the great hymns of Methodism, this text appears in a number of modern hymnals.

It is subtitled "Free Grace" in John and Charles Wesley's Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739). "And Can It Be" was first published in john Wesley's Psalms and Hymns (1738). London, 1791) shortly after John's "Aldersgate experience." Marylebone, London, England, 1788) wrote his powerful and joyful hymn text in 1738 in the days immediately following his conversion to belief in Christ (May 21) he sang it with his brother John (b.

Such is the amazing love of God in Christ! Charles Wesley (b. These sinners receive the righteousness of Christ and can approach the Lord's throne in confidence. In a compact poetic manner, this text exclaims the mystery of God's grace extended to sinners who turn to Christ in faith.
