Wesley Corpus

Who in Jesus confide, We are bold to out-ride The storm of affliction beneath, With the prophet we soar To that heavenly shore, And out-fly all the arrows of death. By faith we are come To our permanent home, By hope we the rapture improve, By love we still rise And look down on the skies: For the heaven of heavens is love. Who on earth can conceive, How happy we live In the city of God the great King! What a concert of praise When our Jesus's grace The whole heavenly company sing! What a rapturous song, When the glorify'd throng In the spirit of harmony join! Join all the glad quires Hearts, voices, and lyres, And the burthen is mercy divine! Hallelujah they cry To the King of the sky, To the great everlasting I AM, To the Lamb that was slain, And liveth again, Hallelujah to God and the Lamb. The Lamb on the throne Lo! He dwells with his own, And to rivers of pleasure he leads, With his mercy's full blaze, With the sight of his face, Our beatified spirits he feeds. Page 131 Our foreheads proclaim His ineffable name, Our bodies his glory display, A day without night We feast in his sight, And eternity seems as a day! Hymn CXXV.164 O Father receive Our heartiest praise, For bidding us live To witness thy grace, For bringing us hither Thy goodness to prove, And triumph together In Jesus's love. Our confident trust In him we declare, Thro' Jesus the just Accepted we are. Redeem'd by his passion, We joyfully join T' ascribe our salvation To mercy divine. Thee, Lord, we adore, And dwell on thy praise, Preserv'd by the power Of Jesus's grace; Thee, Jesus, the giver Of all we proclaim, And publish for ever Thy wonderful name. Thy name is release From sorrow, and sin, 'Tis pardon, and peace, And goodness brought in; 164First appeared in HSP (1749), 2:320. Page 132 It speaks us forgiven, Sinks into the soul, And spreads the pure leaven, And hallows the whole. Hymn CXXVI.165 Jesu, soft harmonious name, Every faithful heart's desire, See thy followers, O Lamb, All at once to thee aspire; Drawn by thy uniting grace, After thee we swiftly run, Hand in hand we seek thy face, Come, and perfect us in one.