Wesley Corpus

Page 71 "Stronger than us our foes we deem" But are they stronger than your Lord? Giants are grashoppers to him, To all who venture on his word. "They are stronger than we." Num. xiii. 31. Our mighty sins they need not still O'er us dominion have, Less mighty to inthrall and kill, Than Jesus is to save: We hear our King and Captain's shout Against our foes abhor'd, And leave them now to fight it out With our Almighty Lord. "Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt, or would God that we had died in this wilderness!" Num. xiv. 2. Poor abject souls that disbelieve The promise, when it comes so nigh! To God who dare not credence give, For fear of death they wish to die: They have the death for which they call; But justly first their burthen bear, Their bodies in the desart fall, Their souls are sav'd by Moses' prayer. "Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt, or would God that we had died in this wilderness!" Num. xiv. 2. Have I not often wish'd the same, In peevishness of mad despair, Repin'd I out of Egypt came, And vex'd I had not perish'd there? While hopeless the good land to see, I question'd, Lord, thy truth and power, And cried "A saint I cannot be, I cannot live, and sin no more." "Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt." Num. xiv. 4. Oft as our hearts to sin turn'd back, Impatient of thy rule, we cried Of self let us a captain make, And fly to Egypt with our guide: