Wesley Corpus

Intestine wars and fightings cease, When Jesus doth with perfect peace His throne in us maintain, King of the saints beneath, above, In all the majesty of love He shall forever reign. "Behold, the Lord hath kept me alive these forty and five years." Joshua xiv. 10. Kept by the Almighty Lord, My keeper I admire, (Christ by highest heaven ador'd) And praise him in the fire; Who so long hast sav'd me here, A few more days preserve thine own, 'Till by thee prepar'd t' appear, And sing before thy throne. "How long are you slack to go to possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers hath given you?" Joshua xviii. 3. Backward alas, too long, and slack T' accept the grace bestow'd, The pardon now we gladly take, The purity of God; Boldly go up, in Jesu's name Our portion to possess, And confident, the land we claim Of perfect righteousness. "When he that doth flee unto one of those cities, shall stand at the gate and shall declare his cause, they shall take him into the city, c." Joshua xx. 4. Let heaven my sad confession hear! I at the city's gate appear, All stain'd with guiltless blood! Alas, I have my brother slain, And knew not that the slaughter'd man Was the eternal God,