Wesley Corpus

De Profundis Prayer for One That is Lunatick, and Sore Vex'd Thanksgiving for Her Deliverance Page 25 God's Love and Power. I felt my heart, and found a chillness cool Its purple channels in my frozen side; The spring was now become a standing pool, Deprived of motion, and its active tide. O stay! O stay! I ever freeze if banish'd from thy ray: A lasting warmth thy secret beams beget; Thou art a sun which cannot rise or set. Then thaw this ice, and make my frost retreat, But let with temp'rate rays thy lustre shine; Thy judgment's lightning, but thy love is heat, Those would consume my heart, but this refine. Inspire, inspire! And melt my soul with thy more equal fire; So shall a pensive deluge drown my fears, My ice turn water, and dissolve in tears. After thy love, if I continue hard, If sin again knit, and confirm'd be grown, If guilt rebel, and stand upon his guard, And what was ice before freeze into stone; Reprove, reprove! Thy power assist thee to revenge thy love: Lo, thou hast still thy threats and thunder left, The stone that can't be melted may be cleft! Page 32 A Prayer for the Light of Life. O Sun of righteousness, arise, With healing in thy wing! To my diseas'd, my fainting soul, Life and salvation bring. Page 33 These clouds of pride and sin dispel By thy all-piercing beam; Lighten mine eyes with faith, my heart With holy hope inflame. My mind by thy all-quickning power From low desires set free: Unite my scatter'd thoughts, and fix My love entire on thee. Father, thy long-lost son receive! Saviour, thy purchase own! Blest Comforter, with peace and joy Thy new-made creature crown! Eternal undivided Lord, Co-equal One and Three, On thee all faith, all hope be plac'd, All love be paid to thee. Page 37 2Changed to "withdraw" in 4th edn. (1748) and following. Prayer for Faith. Father, I stretch my hands to thee, No other help I know. If thou withdraw'st2 thyself from me, Ah! Whither shall I go? What did thy only Son endure Before I drew my breath! What pain, what labour to secure My soul from endless death!