Wesley Corpus

Page 145 From hence if thou my body raise, I'll publish my restorer's praise, My life at thy dear hands receive, And only for thy glory live. "The Lord bringeth low, and lifteth up." I. Sam. ii. 7. Great God, who dost the proud abase, And giv'st to humble souls thy grace, Bring down my nature's virtuous boast, And lay mine honour in the dust; Then answer a mere sinner's cry, Where in the lowest deep I lie, Then from the gates of hell bring back, And save me for my Saviour's sake. "He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory." I. Sam. ii. 8. Most destitute, most helpless I, A beggar, at the point to die! Sunk in the deepest poverty, I all things want by wanting thee! Jesus, thou know'st my desperate case; Out of my own foul dunghill raise, Lift up the poor by grace divine, And speak the heavenly kingdom mine. "He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory." I. Sam. ii. 8. Lord, if I have with thee found grace, Lower and lower still abase, 'Till by humility made meet Among thy priestly kings to sit: Then wilt thou lift thy servant up Partaker of my holiest hope, And bid me with thyself sit down, A sharer of thy brightest37 throne. 37MS Judges reads "glorious," instead of "brightest."