Wesley Corpus

His precious blood both wounds and heals, (When faith the balm applies) My peace restores, my pardon seals, My nature sanctifies; His precious blood the life inspires Which angels live above, And fills my infinite desires, And turns me all to love. Allow'd to kiss my Saviour's feet, I here rejoice and grieve: I never can the sins forget Which Jesus doth forgive; Sorrow and joy unspeakable Alternately I prove, And now my baseness I bewail, And now admire his love. O might I thus thro' life remain, Delightfully distrest, And still indulge the pleasing pain Which tears my happy breast; Till he, my heart's desire appears Reveal'd in heavenly light, And wipes away these blessed tears By that extatic sight! Page 170 O that I could my Lord receive, Who did the world redeem, Who gave his life that I might live A life conceal'd in him! O that I could the blessing prove, My heart's extreme desire, Live happy in my Saviour's love, And in his arms expire! Jesus, thou all-atoneing Lamb, How shall I plead with thee? If graven on thy hands I am, For good remember me: If still thou dost my tokens bear, Thy love to me reveal, And listning to a sinner's prayer, My present pardon seal. Mercy I ask to seal my peace, That kept by mercy's power I may from every evil cease, And never grieve thee more: Now, if thy gracious will it be, Ev'n now my sins remove, And set my heart at liberty By thy victorious love. In answer to ten thousand prayers, Thou pardning God descend, Number me with salvation's heirs, My sins and troubles end: Nothing I ask, or want beside, Of all in earth and heaven, Let me but feel thy blood applied, Let me but die forgiven. Ask if a mother's heart is kind To her own sucking child, Then ask, is God to love inclin'd, Or my Redeemer mild? Page 171 A mother may perhaps neglect, And her own son forget, But Jesus never will reject A sinner at his feet. Ask, if the sun doth once mistake His true celestial road; Then ask, if Jesus can forsake The purchase of his blood. The sun at last shall lose his way, And into darkness fall; But Jesus at that endless day Shall be our all in all.