Wesley Corpus

Worship, honour, thanks, and blessing, One and45 Three, Give we thee, Never, never ceasing. Another Hymn to the Trinity.46 To God, who reigns enthron'd on high, To his dear Son who deign'd to die Our guilt and misery to remove, To that blest Spirit who life imparts, Who rules in all believing hearts, Be endless glory, praise, and love. Another Hymn to the Trinity. Let heaven and earth agree The Father's praise to sing, Who draws us to the Son, that he May us to glory bring. Honour and endless love, Let God the Son receive, Who saves us here, and prays above, That we with him may live. 45"And" changed to "in" in Gloria Patri (1746). 46This is a slightly revised version of verse 2 of Samuel Wesley's adaptation of Psalm CXVII, in The Pious Communicant Rightly Prepared (London: Charles Harper, 1700), 259-60. John Wesley had included both verses of this adaptation (unrevised) in CPH (1737), 9. Page 103 Be everlasting praise To God the Spirit given, Who now attests us sons of grace, And seals us47 heirs of heaven. Drawn, and redeem'd, and seal'd, We'll sing the One and Three, With Father, Son, and Spirit fill'd To all eternity. Another Hymn to the Trinity. Father of mankind, Be ever ador'd: Thy mercy we find, In sending our Lord To ransom and bless us: Thy goodness we praise, For sending in Jesus Salvation by grace. O Son of his love, Who deignedst to die, Our curse to remove, Our pardon to buy; Accept our thanksgiving, Almighty to save, Who openest heaven, To all that believe. 47Charles Wesley changes "us" to "as" in All in All (1761). Page 104 O Spirit of love, Of health, and of power, Thy working we prove, Thy grace we adore; Whose inward revealing Applies our Lord's blood, Attesting, and sealing Us children of God. Hymn for the Kingswood Colliers. Glory to God, whose sovereign grace Hath animated senseless stones, Call'd us to stand before his face, And rais'd us into Abraham's sons. The people that in darkness lay, In sin and error's deadly shade, Have seen a glorious gospel day, In Jesu's lovely face display'd. Thou only, Lord, the work hast done, And bare'd thine arm in all our sight, Hast made the reprobates thy own, And claim'd the outcasts as thy right.