Wesley Corpus

Page 144 "There is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God." I. Sam. ii. 2. Sole, self-existing God and Lord, By all thy heavenly hosts ador'd, Let all on earth bow down to thee, And bless thy peerless majesty, Thy power unparallell'd confess, Establish'd on the Rock of peace, The Rock that never shall remove, The Rock of pure almighty love. "The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed." I. Sam. ii. 3. What man or angel can explore Thy wisdom's unexhausted store, Thy strict unerring justice trace Which all our thoughts and actions weighs, And renders every man his due; As that decisive day shall shew, Thy providential ways explain, Thy justice and thy love to man. "The Lord killeth." I. Sam. ii. 6. When mortal man resigns his breath, 'Tis God directs the shafts of death, Casual howe'er the stroke appear, He sends the fatal messenger: The keys are in that hand divine; That hand must first the warrant sign, And arm the death, and wing the dart, Which doth his message to our heart. "The Lord killeth and maketh alive; he bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up." I. Sam. ii. 6. Who first inspir'd the breath of lives, The living kills, the dead revives, Brings to the margin of the grave, And shews us there his power to save: