Wesley Corpus

O may we still abide In thee our pard'ning God, Thy Spirit be our guide, Thy body be our food, Till thou who hast the token given Shalt bear us on thyself to heaven. Page 94 Hymn CXI. And can we call to mind The Lamb for sinners slain, And not expect to find What he for us did gain, What God to us in him hath given, Pardon, and holiness, and heaven? We now forgiveness have, We feel his work begun, And he shall fully save, And perfect us in one, Shal1 soon in all his image drest Receive us to the marriage-feast. This token of thy love We thankfully receive, And hence with joy remove With thee in heaven to live, There Lord we shall thy pledge restore, And live to praise thee evermore. Hymn CXII. Eternal Spirit gone up on high Blessings for mortals to receive, Send down those blessings from the sky, To us thy gifts and graces give; With holy things our mouths are fill'd, O let our hearts with joy o'erflow; Descend in pard'ning love reveal'd, And meet us in thy courts below. Page 95 Thy sacrifice without the gate Once offer'd up we call to mind, And humbly at thy altar wait Our interest in thy death to find: We thirst to drink thy precious blood, We languish in thy wounds to rest, And hunger for immortal food, And long on all thy love to feast. O that we now thy flesh may eat, Its virtue really receive, Impower'd by this immortal meat The life of holiness to live: Partakers of thy sacrifice O may we all thy nature share, Till to the holiest place we rise, And keep the feast for ever there. Hymn CXIII. Give us, O Lord, the children's bread, By ministerial angels fed, (The angels of thy church below) Nourish us with preserving grace Our forty years or forty days, And lead us thro' the vale of woe: Strengthen'd by this immortal food, O let us reach the mount of God, And face to face our Saviour see, In songs of praise and love and joy, With all thy first-born sons employ An happy whole eternity. Page 96 Hymn CXIV.