Wesley Corpus

Page 89 48"Lord" changed to "lords" in 11th edn. (1789). 49"Comes" changed to "come" in 7th edn. (1765) and following. 50A manuscript version appears in MS Psalms, 312-13. And weary of my burthen pray, Thy love to take this curse away. As servants whom their Lord48 chastise, Beneath the scourge impatient stand, So on the Lord we turn our eyes, And wait till mercy stops his hand; Till all his grievous plagues remove, And angry justice yields to love. Have mercy, Lord, the world restrain: The wicked is a scourge of thine: Crush'd by the pride of carnal man, Dire instrument of wrath divine. Our soul in helpless mis'ry lies, And only thou can'st bid us rise. Contemn'd and hated for thy cause, Thy only favour we implore; Strengthen us to endure the cross, Till all their tyranny is o'er, Till Christ with our reward comes49 down And ev'ry sufferer takes his crown. Psalm CXXIV.50 Had not the Lord for Israel stood, When men and fiends against us rose, Stretch'd out his hand, and stem'd the flood, And stopt the fury of our foes, Our foes had swallow'd up their prey, And torn our shield and souls away. Had not the Lord, we now may cry, Appear'd his people to sustain, The threat'ning floods that dash'd the sky, Had whirl'd us down to hell again; O'erwhelm'd us in the gulph beneath, And plung'd our souls in endless death. Page 90 51A manuscript version appears in MS Psalms, 314-15. But God hath quell'd their angry pride, And kept us in our evil hour, His name be blest and glorify'd, He hath not left us to their pow'r, His word restrain'd their lawless will, And bade the raging sea be still. He pluck'd the prey out of their teeth, Our souls have 'scap'd the fowler's snare, Broke thro' the toils of sin and death; And lo! Our helper we declare, The Lord of heav'n and earth proclaim, And bless th' Almighty Jesus' name. Psalm CXXV.51 Who in the Lord confide, And feel his sprinkled blood, In storms and hurricanes abide Firm as the mount of God: Stedfast, and fixt, and sure His Sion cannot move, His faithful people stand secure In Jesus' guardian love.