Wesley Corpus

Page 26 Gather'd into the church above, Whoe'er to Christ belong Shall meet to sing the song of love, The Lamb's eternal song. "Rebecca took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, and put them upon Jacob her younger son." Gen. xxvii. 15. Father, to that first-born of thine Thou hast the blessing given, The power, and dignity divine, Th' inheritance of heaven. O how shall I the younger son The elder's right obtain? I'll put my brother's raiment on, And thus the blessing gain. "He smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him." Gen. xxvii. 27. Father, I joyfully believe Thou art well-pleas'd with me; Thou dost at my approach perceive An heavenly fragrancy; Thou dost thy gracious will declare, Thou dost delight to bless; For why? My brother's garb I wear, My Saviour's righteousness. "Hast thou not a blessing for me?" Gen. xxvii. 36. My Saviour, my God, I trust in thy blood, To bring me the blessing on many bestow'd: For all it is free, Tho' purchas'd by thee, And I know it is mine, when my Lord is in me. "Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him." Gen. xxvii. 41. Hated by fiends and men, who feel Our sins thro' Christ forgiven, We glory to be curst by hell, For being blest by heaven. Page 27 "He dreamed, and behold a ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it: and behold, the Lord stood above it." Gen. xxviii. 12, 13. What doth the ladder mean, Sent down from the Most-High? Fasten'd to earth its foot is seen, Its summit to the sky: Lo! Up and down the scale The angels swiftly move, And God, the great invisible, Himself appears above! Jesus that ladder1 is, Th' incarnate deity, Partaker of celestial bliss, And human misery; Sent from his high abode, To sleeping mortals given, He stands, and man unites to God, And earth connects with heaven. "He dreamed, and behold a ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it: and behold, the Lord stood above it." Gen. xxviii. 12, 13.