Wesley Corpus

Volume 7 (1784): 452 A Prayer for Holiness.50 When, O my Saviour, shall I find, Planted in me thy heav'nly mind! When wilt thou make me as thou art, Lowly and meek and pure in heart! Till with thy mind and Spirit blest, I cannot enter into rest; Rest to my soul I cannot know, Till fashion'd as my Lord below. Thou man of griefs, thou man of love, This wrath, desire, and pride remove: My nature by thine own expel, And in my soul for ever dwell. Thou know'st for this alone I live, Thy spotless image to retrieve; With peace and wisdom from above, With gentle, chaste, and humble love. O love, essentially divine, I nothing want, when thou art mine; Substantial holiness thou art, And God inhabiting the heart. Come then to vindicate thine own, And fix in me thy favourite throne, My uttermost salvation be; My heav'n through all eternity! 50Appears in MS Hymns for Love, 75-76. Volume 8 (1785): 64 A Prayer for One Grievously Tempted.51 Jesus, the promise made by thee We plead, and touching this agree, To ask it for our friend; The help thou only canst bestow, Deliv'rance from her cruel foe, A swift deliv'rance send. The virtue of thy saving name, To-day, as yesterday the same, In her relief exert; The fiend who dares thy temple seize, No longer suffer him t' oppress, But bid him now depart. Thou canst with equal ease make whole The body and the sin-sick soul, Physician of mankind: Thy patient, Lord, at once restore, Fill'd with th' spirit of love and pow'r, And of a healthful mind. Cloth'd with humility and grace, Thy sav'd, thy happy handmaid place Attentive at thy feet; And never may she thence remove, Till spotless in thy sight above She finds her joy compleat. 51Appears in MS Miscellaneous Hymns, 210-11, with title "For Miss A. D. (September 1784)."