Wesley Corpus

Or if thy unwearied love Will not yet the rebel leave, Stronger let thine influence prove, Let me double grace receive, Give me more, or give me less, Fix my doom, or seal my peace. After a Recovery. Hymn IV.89 O my Advocate above, Feel I yet again thy prayer? Stop the torrent of thy love Love beyond what I can bear! Vilest of the rebel-race Dost thou still my soul reprieve, Still pursue me with thy grace? How shall I thy grace receive! Saviour, dost thou bid me rise, Dost thou give me back my hope? Can I lift my guilty eyes? Dare I, after all, look up? 89A manuscript precursor of this hymn appears in MS Thirty, 178-80. Page 161 O depart from me, depart, I am, Lord, a sinful man, Leave me to my wretched heart, Let me suffer all my pain. What have fiends to do with thee? Leave me all my hell to bear, Squander not thy grace on me, Give me over to despair: No; thou wilt not loose thy hold, No; thou wilt not quit thy claim; Sold to sin, to Satan sold, Lost, and damn'd yet thine I am. Overwhelm'd with pardning grace, Jesus, at thy feet I lie, Dare not see thy smiling face, Tremble at thy mercy nigh; I, a child of wrath and hell, How can I look up to heaven! Lord, I faint thy love to feel, Blush, and die to be forgiven. After all that I have done, Saviour, art thou pacified? Whither shall my vileness run? Hide me, earth, the sinner hide. Let me sink into the dust, Full of holy shame adore; Jesus Christ, the good, the just, Bids me go, and sin no more.90 O confirm the gracious word, Jesu, Son of God and man, Let me never grieve thee, Lord, Never turn to sin again: 'Till my all in all thou art, 'Till thou bring thy91 nature in, Keep this feeble, trembling heart, Save me, save me, Lord, from sin. 90Ori., "sin more"; corrected in errata and 2nd edn. (1755). 91Ori., "my"; corrected in errata and 2nd edn. (1755). Page 162