Wesley Corpus

Thou wilt to us thy name impart, Thou bear'st it not in vain: What thou art call'd, thou surely art, Saviour of sinful man. Into thy name, thy nature, we Assuredly believe, Jesus from sin, thee, only thee Our Jesus we receive. Our Jesus thou from future woe, From present wrath divine, Shalt save us from our sins below, And make our souls like thine. Jesus from all the power of sin, From all the being too, Thy grace shall make us throughly clean, And perfectly renew. Jesus from pride, from wrath, from lust, Our inward Jesus be, From every evil thought we trust To be redeem'd by thee. When thou dost in our flesh appear, We shall the promise prove, Sav'd into all perfection here, Renew'd in sinless love. Come, O thou prophet, priest, and King, Thou Son of God, and man, Into our souls thy fulness bring, Instruct, atone and reign. Holy, and pure, as just, and wise, We would be in thy right, Less than thine all cannot suffice, We grasp the infinite. Page 184 Our Jesus thee, entire, and whole With willing heart we take; Fill ours, and every faithful soul For thy own mercy's sake: We wait to know thine utmost name, Thy nature's heavenly powers, One undivided Christ we claim, And all thou art is ours. Hymns for Those that Wait for Full Redemption. Hymn XXIX.36 "Let God be true, and every man a liar." Romans iii. 4. And hast thou died, O Lamb of God, To take away our inbred sin? And shall we trample on thy blood, And say, "It cannot make us clean, The truth on earth we cannot know, There's no perfection here below?" From all iniquity to save, To cleanse from all unrighteousness, Thy life thou hast a ransom gave, To make the first transgression cease, To finish sin, my Lord was slain, But died (the faithless cry) in vain. "In vain was he in flesh reveal'd, For sin can never be destroy'd; We cannot by his stripes be heal'd, We cannot wholly live to God: No, though he died to have it done, We cannot live to God alone. "The flesh is weak, and will prevail; We all have our infirmities, 36Ori., "XXXIX" (in both editions). Manuscript precursors of this hymn appear in MS Cheshunt, 103-5; MS Clarke, 118-20; and MS Shent, 178a-179a.