Wesley Corpus

Lord, if now thou passest by us, Stand and call us unto thee, Freely, fully justify us, Give us eyes thy love to see, Love that brought thee down from heaven, Made our God a man of grief: Let it shew our sins forgiven; Help, O help our unbelief. Long we for thy love have waited, Begging sat by the way-side, Still we are not new-created, Still we are not sanctified,26 Thou to some in great compassion Hast in part their sight restor'd, Shew us all thy full salvation, Make the servants as their Lord. Hymn LXXXIV. Christ our Passover for us Is offer'd up and slain! Let him be remembred thus By every soul of man: We are bound above the rest His oblation to proclaim, Keep we then the solemn feast And banquet on the Lamb. Purge we all our sin away That old accursed leaven, Sin in us no longer stay In us thro' Christ forgiven: 26Line changed to "Are not wholly sanctified" in 2nd edn. (1747) and following. Page 72 Let us all with hearts sincere Eat the new27 unleavened bread, To our Lord with faith draw near, And on his promise feed. Jesus, master of the feast, The feast itself thou art, Now receive thy meanest guest, And comfort every heart: Give us living bread to eat, Manna that from heaven comes down, Fill us with immortal meat, And make thy nature known. In this barren wilderness Thou hast a table spread, Furnish'd out with richest grace, Whate'er our souls can need; Still sustain us by thy love, Still thy servants' strength repair, Till we reach the courts above, And feast for ever there. Hymn LXXXV.28 O thou, whom sinners love, whose care Doth all our sickness heal, Thee we approach with heart sincere, Thy power we joy to feel. To thee our humblest thanks we pay, To thee our souls we bow, Of hell e'erwhile the helpless prey, Heirs of thy glory now. As incense to thy throne above, O let our prayers arise Wing with the flames of holy love Our living sacrifice: 27Ori., "now"; a misprint, corrected in 2nd edn. (1747) and following. 28Source: Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, ed. Das Gesang-Buch der Gemeine in Herrn-Huth (Halle: Wäysenhaus, 1737), 969 (1072, by Zinzendorf). First appeared as "Prayer to Christ Before the Sacrament. From the German," in HSP (1739), 189-90.