Wesley Corpus

Page 218 Yes, thou hast chose at last the better part, And God alone hath all thy simple heart. Wholly devoted now to God alone, Thou mourn'st the days for ever lost and gone, Gay youthful days of vanity and vice Thou see'st confounded vile in thy own eyes; Pardon'd, yet still persisting to lament Thy fortune, time, and talents all mispent; A sinner self-condemn'd, and self-abhor'd, But wondring at the goodness of thy Lord; He saw thee in thy blood and bad thee live; Yet still thyself thou never couldst forgive. Resolv'd each precious moment to redeem, To serve thy God, and only live to him, Thro' all at once thy constant virtue broke, Cast off the world, and sin, and Satan's yoke, The stedfast purpose of thy soul avow'd, Confess'd the Christian, and declar'd for God. O what a change was there! the man of birth Sinks down into a clod of common earth: The man of polish'd sense his judgment quits, And tamely to a madman's name submits: The man of curious taste neglects his food, And all is pleasant now, and all is good: The man of rigid honour slights his fame, And glories in his Lord and Master's shame: The man of wealth and pleasure all foregoes, And nothing but the cross of Jesus knows: The man of sin is wash'd in Jesu's blood, The man of sin becomes a child of God!