Wesley Corpus

Then let me die to see my Lord! I rush upon that flaming sword Which doth the sinner slay: But he who by thy justice dies, By this shut out of paradise, Shall find another way. I find it now: most gracious God, I enter boldly thro' the blood Of my redeeming Lord, By faith I see the bar remov'd, I feel lost man again belov'd, And paradise restor'd. "God drove out the man: and he placed ... Cherubim, and a flaming sword, which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." Gen. iii. 24. Happy who in Christ delight, And his commandments love, They shall keep their gracious right To paradise above, Eat the immortalizing tree, From which they can no more be driven, Feast on full felicity, And live the life of heaven. "If thou dost well, shalt thou not be accepted?" Gen. iv. 7. Principled with godly fear, Righteousness he might have wrought, Cain himself, in faith sincere, Might have his oblation brought; Cain had then accepted been, The old murtherer abhor'd, Conquer'd the besetting sin, More than conquer'd thro' his Lord. "If thou dost not well, sin lieth at the door." Gen. iv. 7. Tho' every sinful act increase Our strong propensity to sin, Into our heart it need not press, We need not let the evil in: