Wesley Corpus

Sing we then in Jesu's name, Now, as yesterday the same, One in every age and place, Full for all of truth and grace. Page 182 We for Christ our Master stand Lights in a benighted land; We our dying Lord confess, We are Jesu's witnesses. Witnesses that Christ hath died, We with him are crucified: Christ hath burst the bands of death, We his quick'ning Spirit breathe. Christ is now gone up on high, (Thither all our wishes fly): Sits at God's right-hand above, There with him we reign in love! Part II. Come, thou high and lofty Lord, Lowly, meek, incarnate Word; Humbly stoop to earth again, Come, and visit abject man. Jesu, dear, expected guest, Thou art bidden to the feast; For thyself our hearts prepare, Come, and sit, and banquet there. Jesu, we the promise claim, We are met in thy great name: In the midst do thou appear, Manifest thy presence here; Sanctify us, Lord, and bless, Breathe thy Spirit, give thy peace, Thou thyself within us move; Make our feast a feast of love. Page 183 Let the fruits of grace abound, Let in us thy bowels sound; Faith, and love, and joy increase, Temperance, and gentleness: Plant in us thy humble mind; Patient, pitiful, and kind, Meek, and lowly let us be, Full of goodness, full of thee. Make us all in thee compleat, Make us all for glory meet, Meet t' appear before thy sight, Partners with the saints in light. Call, O call us each by name To the marriage of the Lamb, Let us lean upon thy breast, Love be there our endless feast. Part III. Let us join ('tis God commands) Let us join our hearts and hands; Help to gain our calling's hope, Build we each the other up. God his blessing shall dispense, God shall crown his ordinance, Meet in his appointed ways, Nourish us with social grace. Let us then as brethren love, Faithfully his gifts improve, Carry on the earnest strife, Walk in holiness of life. Page 184 Still forget the things behind, Follow Christ in heart and mind, Toward the mark unwearied press, Seize the crown of righteousness.