Wesley Corpus

Assur'd we shall acceptance find, To Jesus in oblation join'd, Where'er the scatter'd members look, To him who all our sorrows took, The saving efflux we receive, And quicken'd by his Passion live. Hymn CXLI. Happy the souls that follow'd thee Lamenting to th' accursed wood, Happy who underneath the tree Unmoveable in sorrow stood. When nature felt the deadly blow By which thy soul to God was driven, Which shook with sympathetick woe Temple, and graves, and earth, and heaven. O what a time for offering up Their souls upon thy sacrifice! Who would not with thy burthen stoop, And bow the head when Jesus dies! Not all the days before or since An hour so solemn could afford For suffering with our bleeding prince, For dying with our slaughter'd Lord. Yet in this ordinance divine We still the sacred load may bear; And now we in thy offering join, Thy sacramental Passion share. We cast our sins into that fire Which did thy sacrifice consume, And every base and vain desire To daily crucifixion doom. Page 120 Thou art with all thy members here, In this tremendous mystery We jointly before God appear To offer up ourselves with thee. True followers of our bleeding Lamb Now on thy daily cross we die, And mingled in a common flame Ascend triumphant to the skie. Hymn CXLII. Come we that record The death of our Lord, The death let us bear, By faithful remembrance his sacrifice share. Shall we let our God groan And suffer alone, Or to Calvary fly, And nobly resolve with our Master to die! His servants shall be With him on the tree, Where Jesus was slain, His crucified servants shall always remain. By the cross we abide Where Jesus hath died, To all we are dead; The members can never out-live their own head. Poor penitents we Expect not to see His glory above, Till first we have drunk of the cup of his love: Page 121 Till first we partake The cross for his sake, And thankfully own The cup of his love and his sorrow are one. Conform'd to his death If we suffer beneath, With him we shall know The power of his first resurrection below.