“Jason Vickers has argued that Wesley’s hymns to the Trinity, together with his earlier Hymns on the Nativity of our Lord (1745) must be taken into account against the general assumption that the doctrine of the Trinity had become a dead letter in eighteenth-century Protestant theology. While the systematic theologians had reduced it to a mere abstract statement that had to be defended intellectually against charges of incoherence, the hymns demonstrate that in the pastoral theology of the Wesleys, trinitarian doctrine and spiritual life were intimately connected.375”