Wesley Corpus

If such thou wilt indeed receive, Captain, to thee my name I give, The poorest outcast I, And joining now the desperate band, And subjected to thy command, With thee I live and die. "He strengthen'd his hand in God." I. Sam. xxiii. 16. O may I thus confirm my friend, And teach on Jesus to depend, On Jesus turn his heart and eye Who only doth our wants supply, And makes his strength in weakness known, And all our works effects alone. 42MS Judges reads "downward," instead of "Saviour." Page 155 "David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day, by the hand of Saul." I. Sam. xxvii. 1. So oft preserv'd in perils past, Why should I despond at last, And cast my faith away? I cannot help this abject fear, For still the hellish Saul is near My hunted soul to slay. Thou seest my feebleness of heart; Do not, do not, Lord, depart In life's extremity, But stand another hour between, Another hour my weakness skreen, And take my soul to thee. "Saul perceived that it was Samuel." I. Sam. xxviii. 14. No wily fiend, by magic spell Evok'd from his infernal cell, To personate the prophet true, But Samuel 'self43 appears in view; To make the prostrate king relent, Humbly accept his punishment, To warn him of his instant doom, But not denounce the wrath to come. "To-morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me." I. Sam. xxviii. 19. What do these solemn words portend? A gleam of hope when life shall end: "Thou and thy sons, tho' slain, shall be To-morrow, in repose with me!" Not in a state of hellish pain, If Saul with Samuel doth remain, Not in a state of damn'd despair, If loving Jonathan is there! 43I.e., "Samuel himself."