Wesley Corpus

Visit, Lord, with thy salvation Every providential guest, Every friend, and kind relation Take into thy people's rest: Conscious of thy sacred presence Let them feel the loving fear, Cry with blissful acquiescence God, the pardning God is here! Prince of Peace, if thou art near us, Fix in all our hearts thy home, By thy last appearing chear us, Quickly let thy kingdom come: Answer all our expectation, Give our raptur'd souls to prove Glorious, uttermost salvation, Heavenly, everlasting love! Hymns for Believers. Hymn XXXVI. For New-Year's-Day.41 The Lord of earth and sky The God of ages praise, Who reigns enthron'd on high, Antient of endless days, Who lengthens out our trial here, And spares us yet another year. Barren and wither'd trees We cumbred long the ground, No fruit of holiness On our dead souls was found; Yet doth he us in mercy spare Another, and another year. 41Manuscript precursors of this hymn appear in MS Shent, 108a; and MS Thirty, 53 (where it is specified for New Year's 1741). Page 251 When justice bared the sword To cut the fig-tree down, The pity of our Lord Cried, Let it still alone! The Father mild inclines his ear, And spares us yet another year. Jesus, thy speaking blood From God obtain'd the grace, Who therefore hath bestow'd On us a longer space, Thou didst in our behalf appear, And lo, we see another year! Then dig about our root, Break up our fallow ground, And let our gracious fruit To thy great praise abound, O let us all thy praise declare, And fruit unto perfection bear. Hymns for Believers. Hymn XXXVII. An Hourly Act of Oblation. God of almighty love, By whose sufficient grace I lift my heart to things above, And humbly seek thy face; Thro' Jesus Christ the just My faint desires receive, And let me in thy goodness trust, And to thy glory live. Whate'er I speak, or do, Thy glory be my aim: My offerings all are offer'd thro' The ever-blessed name: Page 252 Jesus, my single eye Is fixt on thee alone, Thy name be prais'd on earth, on high, Thy will by all be done.