Wesley Corpus

Humbled like him, the Lord I fear, And softly in his presence go, With horror mark his judgments near, His arm made bare to give the blow! O thou who didst an Ahab spare, A partial penitent reprieve, Break, and inspire my heart with prayer, And then for thy own sake forgive. Page 175 Hymn 556. "Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty, with his fifty." II. Kings i. 11. Such is the heart of man to God, So harden'd in his bold offence, As resolute not to be subdued, Or baffled by omnipotence! But from his angry presence driven, Who will not here his judgments feel, Unconquer'd by the fire from heaven They perish by the fire of hell. "Elijah took his mantle, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither; so that they two went over on dry ground." II. Kings ii. 8. When God receives his servants up, As at the stream of death we stop, On Jordan's brink a moment stay: But Jesus, our immortal guide, Did by his death the waves divide, And shews our souls an open way. Christ and the promis'd land in view, His ransom'd pass securely thro', Howe'er the idle billows roar; In our Elijah's mantle clad, By his eternal Spirit stay'd, We reach with songs the heavenly shore!