Wesley Corpus

By thine agonizing pain And bloody sweat, we pray; By thy dying love to man, Take all our sins away: Burst our bonds and set us free, From all iniquity release: O remember Calvary, And bid us go in peace. Page 12 16HLS (1745) ori., "Till perfected." Let thy blood, by faith apply'd, The sinner's pardon seal; Speak us freely justify'd, And all our sickness heal. By thy Passion on the tree Let all our griefs and troubles cease: O remember Calvary, And bid us go in peace. Never will we hence depart, Till thou our wants relieve; Write forgiveness on our heart, And all thine image give: Still our souls shall cry to thee, Till all renew'd16 in holiness: O remember Calvary, And bid us go in peace. Page 13 17First appeared in HLS (1745), 18-19 (23). Hymn VI. On the Crucifixion.17 Hearts of stone, relent, relent, Break, by Jesus' cross subdu'd: See his body mangled, rent, Cover'd with a gore of blood! Sinful soul, what hast thou done? Murther'd God's eternal Son! () Yes, our sins have done the deed, Drove the nails that fix him here, Crown'd with thorns his sacred head, Pierc'd him with the soldier's spear, Made his soul a sacrifice: For a sinful world he dies. Shall we let him die in vain? Still to death pursue our God? Open tear his wounds again, Trample on his precious blood? No; with all our sins we part Saviour, take my broken heart! Page 14 18First appeared in HLS (1745), 68-69 (80). 19HLS (1745) ori., "fond." Hymn VII. On the Crucifixion.18 With pity, Lord, a sinner see, Weary of thy ways and thee: Forgive my rash19 despair, A blessing in the means to find, My strugglings to throw off the care, And cast them all behind. () Long have I groan'd thy grace to gain, Suffer'd on, but all in vain: An age of mournful years I waited for thy passing by, And lost my pray'rs, and sighs, and tears, And never found thee nigh. Page 15 20HLS (1745) ori., "Thy love alone." 21HLS (1745) ori., "Thy dear expiring love." 22HLS (1745) ori., "Of all who." 23HLS (1745) ori., "And see thy face, and die."