{"id":43579,"date":"2014-04-15T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/robert_cargill_on_the_charles_wesley_hymn_a_charge_to_keep_i_have\/"},"modified":"2014-04-15T15:00:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T15:00:56","slug":"robert_cargill_on_the_charles_wesley_hymn_a_charge_to_keep_i_have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43579","title":{"rendered":"Robert Cottrill on the Charles Wesley Hymn A Charge to Keep I Have"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The comments by Matthew Henry that caught Wesley\u2019s attention were:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe have, every one of us, a charge to keep, an eternal God to glorify, an immortal soul to provide for, needful duties to be done, our generation to serve; and it must be our daily care to keep this charge, for it is the charge of the Lord our Master\u201d\u009d (The Matthew Henry Commentary, p. 121).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>CH-1) A charge to keep I have,<br \/>\nA God to glorify,<br \/>\nWho gave His Son my soul to save,<br \/>\nAnd fit it for the sky.<\/p>\n<p>CH-2) To serve the present age,<br \/>\nMy calling to fulfil:<br \/>\nO may it all my powers engage<br \/>\nTo do my master\u2019s will!<\/p>\n<p>Many things have changed, on this side of the cross. There is no longer a Levitical tribe of priests, or one central tabernacle (or temple) as Israel had. And because of the great sacrifice of Christ, God\u2019s Lamb (Jn. 1:29), we no need to offer animal sacrifices. They were simply a foreshadowing of Calvary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordwisehymns.com\/2011\/07\/27\/a-charge-to-keep-i-have\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comments by Matthew Henry that caught Wesley\u2019s attention were: \u201cWe have, every one of us, a charge to keep, an eternal God to glorify, an immortal soul to provide for, needful duties to be done, our generation to serve;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43579\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,162,186,183,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-christology","category-church-history","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}