Wesley Corpus

We live to testify the grace Which sure salvation brings: And sink to night in thy embrace, And rest beneath thy wings: But whether, Lord, we wake or sleep, The charge of love divine, We trust thy providence to keep Our souls for ever thine. To: "Sinners obey the gospel-word." Jesus, the virtue of thy name To day as yesterday the same Our guilt removes, our fear dispels, And every soul-distemper heals. On us the precious faith bestow Thro' which thy name we truly know, Experience all its saving powers, And feel, whate'er thou hast is ours. Thou giv'st us now our want to feel, Thou dost our unbelief reveal, And wrought to this by previous grace We ask thy love, and seek thy face. Thy all-restoring love impart, Display thy presence in our heart, Page 20 And perfectly made whole we rise, And go in peace to paradise. To: "O love divine, how sweet thou art!" O thou that hast our sorrows borne, Help us to look on thee, and mourn, On thee whom we have slain, Have pierc'd a thousand, thousand times, And by re-iterated crimes Renew'd thy mortal pain. Vouchsafe us eyes of faith to see The man transfixt on Calvary, To know thee who thou art, The one eternal God and true; And let the sight affect, subdue, And break my stubborn heart. My heart all other means defies, It dares against thy threatnings rise, Thy righteous laws disdains; More harden'd than the fiends below, With unconcern to hell I go, And laugh at hellish pains. Lover of souls, to rescue mine, Reveal the charity divine That suffer'd in my stead, That made thy soul a sacrifice, And quench'd in death those flaming eyes, And bow'd that sacred head. The unbelieving veil remove, And by thy manifested love, And by thy sprinkled blood Destroy the love of sin in me, And get thyself the victory, And bring me back to God. Page 21 Now by thy dying love constrain My heart to love its God again, Its God to glorify; And lo, I come thy cross to share, Echo thy sacrificial prayer, And with my Saviour die. To: "Head of thy church triumphant."