Wesley Corpus

Page 106 And if I in thy word confide, Thou, Lord, shall say to me, "Thou art all fair, my love, my bride, There is no spot in thee!" "He found him in a desart land, he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye." Deut. xxxii. 10. He found me in a desart place, Where far from God I rov'd, And led me thro' the legal maze, And chasten'd whom he lov'd; Kept as the apple of his eye, With tenderest care carest, And sav'd my soul, while sin was nigh, And hid me in his breast. "As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange God with him." Deut. xxxii. 11, 12. The eagle fond her charge awakes Where in the nest they doze, And while her fluttering plumes she shakes, The way to fly she shews; She spreads her wings, her young to bear, Before their own they try, And takes them up, and cleaves the air, And soars above the sky. "As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange God with him." Deut. xxxii. 11, 12. 'Twas thus in nature's sleep I lay, When Christ his Spirit shed: His Spirit stirr'd me up to pray, And hover'd o'er my head, Infusing the first gracious hope He spread his wings abroad, And train'd his infant-pupil up To seek the face of God.