Wesley Corpus

Will ye the hateful relicks spare, And say, it is the Saviour's will? The thorns ye for yourselves prepare Your wounded sides and eyes shall feel; Vext by the foes ye leave within, In vain for rest, or help ye cry, For you, who chuse to live with sin, There's no redemption till you die! "I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them." Num. xxxiii. 56. The sins which men at thy command Refuse, O God, t' expel, Shall sweep them off the promis'd land, Shall drive them out to hell; The lusts which for the Saviour's sake They will not mortify, Shall bring thy threaten'd curse, and make Their souls forever die. "They shall be unto you cities of refuge from the avenger, that the man-slayer die not." Num. xxxv. 12. Our city of defence, to thee From the avenger, Lord, we flee, Page 85 Who in thy death confide; Justice divine pursues in vain The men who God himself have slain, When shelter'd in thy side. "But if the revenger of blood find him without the city, he shall kill him." Num. xxxv. 27. But lest we from our city stray, And justice stern the stragler slay, Thy hallowing grace bestow, Bind us with cords of perfect love, And hide our spotless souls above, And never let us go. Page 86 Hymn 269. "Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers, to give unto them, and to their seed after them." Deut. i. 8. The pleasant land display'd before Our eyes of faith we see; And God, the God of Abraham, swore To give it unto me: I now go up, the perfect peace, The perfect love to feel, And in that land of righteousness I shall for ever dwell. "Our brethren have discouraged our heart." Deut. i. 28. Our brethren of their foes afraid, Have us by their report dismay'd; And listening to their lie, That "sin can never be brought down," Faint-hearted slaves, we must sin on, Till in despair we die. Page 87 "Dread not, neither be afraid of them. The Lord your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes." Deut. i. 29, 30.