Wesley Corpus

Then, then we shall obtain The victory one and all, The number of perfection gain, And see the city fall, Partakers of our hope Our calling's glorious prize, To finish'd holiness go up, And then to paradise. "What wilt thou do unto thy great name?" Joshua vii. 9. Jesus, as taught by thee I plead, If vanquish'd by my foes I am, My foes, which on thy servant tread, Will pour contempt on thy great name: Ah! Leave me not engag'd in fight To lose my shield, and turn my back, But arm with all thy Spirit's might, And save me for religion's sake! 26John Wesley underlined "the first, or second" in line 3 and "the latest" in line 7 of this stanza in his personal copy, commenting in the margin "When he pleases." Page 118 "Get thee up: wherefore liest thou upon thy face? Israel hath sinned." Joshua vii. 10, 11. What profits prayer itself, unless We put the cursed thing away? Lord, let us first the sin redress, And then against the judgment pray. "Thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you." Joshua vii. 13. The secret curse, the bosom-sin Thro' faith in Jesus I remove, And sure the victory to win, And more than conqueror to prove, 'Gainst Satan and the world I go, (My Lord hath both for me o'ercome) And trample on my latest foe, And march with Christ triumphant home. "Achan was taken." Joshua vii. 18. Lord, if some secret sin of mine Doth now for public judgments call, Obstruct the course of grace divine, And bring thy righteous wrath on all; Before the dreadful day o'ertake, When sinners shall their doom receive, O may I here confess, forsake, Abhor the cursed thing, and live. "When I saw, then I coveted them, and took them." Joshua vii. 21. "I saw, and coveted, and took!" The progress this of every sin; While death, admitted by a look, Lets everlasting judgments in: But if an eye of faith on thee I turn, directed by thy word, Jesus mine Advocate I see, I see, desire, and take my Lord.