Wesley Corpus

O my most condescending Lord, He humbly stoops to ask my love! 'Tis no impracticable word; I may, I will obedient prove, His grace accept, his power exert, And serve my God with all my heart. 21John Wesley underlined "would lament till death" in his personal copy, commenting "God forbid" in the margin. 22John Wesley underlined "rejoice" in his personal copy. Page 99 Full of thy holy love I rise, To worship spiritual and true, On eagle's wings my spirit flies, Whatever my Lord commands to do, To answer all my Saviour's will, And perfectly his law fulfil. "What doth the Lord thy God request of thee, but to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, to keep the commandments of the Lord." Deut. x. 12, 13. Jesus, thou dost not sue in vain, Or ask what I can never give: Thyself hast plac'd the power in man His proffer'd Saviour to receive, While knocking at the door thou art, And criest "My son give me thy heart!" Come in, thou supplicant divine, I hear thy voice and open now: Take my poor heart, no longer mine, Enter with all thy fulness thou; Take my poor heart, ('tis all thine own) And never leave thy humble throne. "Circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked." Deut. x. 16. If thou command it, Lord, we may With our transgressions part: We do cut off, and cast away The foreskin of our heart; Our stiff-neck'd souls we bow to thee, And trusting in thy power, We need no more rebellious be, We will rebel no more. "There shall no man be able to stand before you." Deut. xi. 25. Lord, thy saying I embrace, And 'gainst my threefold foe, Trusting the sure word of grace, To certain conquest go;