Wesley Corpus

I sing the goodness of the Lord, The goodness I experience now, And still I hang upon thy word, My Saviour to the utmost thou. Thy love I ever shall proclaim A mon'ment of thy mercy I, And praise the mighty Jesu's name, Jesus the Lord, the Lord most high. Page 11 16A manuscript version appears in MS Psalms, 135-39; and MS Thirty, 136-41. Psalm LI.16 God of unfathomable love, Whose bowels of compassion move Towards Adam's helpless race, See, at thy feet, a sinner see, In tender mercy look on me, And all my sins efface. O let thy love to me o'erflow, Thy multitude of mercies shew, Abundantly forgive; Remove th' insufferable load, Blot out my sins with sacred blood, And bid the sinner live. Take all the power of sin away, Nor let in me its being stay, Mine inmost soul convert, Wash me from all my filth of sin, Come, Lord, and make me throughly clean, Create me pure in heart. For O my sins I now confess, Bewail my desperate wickedness, And sue to be forgiven, I have abus'd thy patient grace, I have provok'd thee to thy face, And dar'd the wrath of heaven. Thee only thee have I defied: Though all thy wrath on me abide, And my damnation seal, Though into outer darkness thrust, I'll own the punishment is just, And clear my God in hell. Cast in the mould of sin I am, Corrupt throughout my ruin'd frame, My essence all unclean, Page 12 17John Wesley substituted "spotless" for "sinless" by hand in his personal copy of the 5th edn. (1751). My total fall from God I mourn, In sin I was conceiv'd and born, Whate'er I am is sin. But thou requirest all our hearts, Truth rooted in the inward parts, Unspotted purity; And by thy grace I humbly trust, To learn the wisdom of the just, In secret taught by thee. Surely thou wilt the grace impart, Sprinkle the blood upon my heart, Which did for sinners flow, The blood that purges every sin, The blood that soon shall wash me clean, And make me white as snow. Thou wilt my mournful spirit chear, And grant me once again to hear Thy sweet forgiving voice, That all my bones and inmost soul, Broken by thee, by thee made whole May in thy strength rejoice.