Wesley Corpus

Page 20 "Is any thing too hard for the Lord?" Gen. xviii. 14. Nothing too hard can be For mine Almighty Lord: Sufficient is thy grace for me, Who hang upon thy word; Thou canst, thou wilt forgive, My nature's sin erase, And bid me in thine image live, And die to see thy face. "Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?" Gen. xviii. 17. Stupendous grace of the Most High! What hath the Lord on worms bestow'd, Call'd to the council of the sky, And number'd with the friends of God! "I know him, that he will command his children and his houshold after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord." Gen. xviii. 19. Fain would I, Lord, my houshold lead In all the paths of righteousness, And train them up, an holy seed, To serve thy will, and spread thy praise: Implant in me the patriarch's mind, My sacred cares and toils approve, And bless the church I leave behind, The children of my faith and love. "I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes." Gen. xviii. 27. Despicable, frail, and dying, Vile before my God I am, On thine only grace relying; Dust and ashes is my name: