Wesley Corpus

Page 180 But following him in holy love, In zeal, and faith, and prayer, We soon shall find the seer above, And share his raptures there. "He cast the salt into the spring, and said, I have healed these waters." II. Kings ii. 21. Jesus, thy salvation bring, Cast the salt into the spring, In my heart thy love reveal, Nature's bitter waters heal: Let the principle of grace Bring forth fruits of righteousness, Then the barren curse is o'er, Sin and death are then no more. "He cursed them in the name of the Lord." II. Kings ii. 24. Regardless of a private wrong, No personal revenge he seeks: Vengeance doth unto God belong, And mock'd he in his prophet speaks: Jehovah speaks the direful word, That old and young, that great and small May quake before their righteous Lord, Who hates, and visits sin in all. "The king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat, and the king of Edom went down to Elisha." II. Kings iii.52 12. Three kings expecting at his gate The prophet's needful help implor'd, Elijah's successor so great, So great a servant of the Lord! "It came to pass when the minstrel played, that the hand of the Lord came upon him." II. Kings iii. 15. Hark! The sacred minstrel plays, And sings the great Jehovah's praise! 52Ori., "ii"; a misprint. Page 181 See the sooth'd attentive seer Ready now his God to hear! All his powers in consert53 join, Passive to the touch divine, Admit the everlasting guest, And heaven is open'd in his breast. "It came to pass when the minstrel played, that the hand of the Lord came upon him." II. Kings iii. 15. When by the harp's harmonious aid The fluttering of his spirit is laid, When nature's latest tumult ends, The Lord upon his soul descends, Whose visit greater honour brings Than three of earth's attending kings! "When the vessels were full, the oil stayed." II. Kings iv. 6. Straiten'd in God we cannot be, No bounds his power and bounty know, His grace is an exhaustless sea, Which flows, and shall for ever flow; And if its course suspended seem, The hindrance is in us, not him.