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. --This hymn was designed to have been sung over his corpse, by the orphans belonging to his tabernacle in London, had this truly great, pious, and learned man died there.

[Boston?] : [publisher not identified], [1770?]

1 online resource (broadside) : illustrations (relief cut)

"Though the title of this hymn states that the author was Whitefield, it was first printed in the first series of Charles Wesley's funeral hymns."--Sabin 102643.
Twelve numbered stanzas printed in two columns, within mourning borders. First line: Ah! lovely appearance of death!
Relief cut of coffin (Reilly 1215) at head.
Possible imprint determined from evidence of another edition of this broadside with the imprint: [Boston] Printed and sold at Green & Russell's, in Queen-Street. [1770]. (Sabin 103519, Bristol 3288, Shipton & Mooney 42187, and Ford 1556).

Bristol, B3287
Shipton & Mooney, 42186
Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1555
Sabin, 103520

Description based on online resource; title from PDF caption title (LLMC Digital, viewed September 3, 2019).

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Print version: Wesley, Charles, 1707-1788. Funeral hymn, composed by that eminent servant of the most high God, the late reverend and renowned George Whitefield. [Boston?] [1770?]

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