Wesley Corpus

Jesus, if thou dost intend To bless me in my latter end, Now thy gracious mind declare, Chide my sadness of despair; If thou dost not save me now, Yet before my head I bow, Speak into my troubled breast The earnest of eternal rest. "So Job died, being old, and full of days." Job xlii. 17. Let me well conclude my race And reach the happy shore, Full of a few mournful days, O God, I ask no more: Wisdom is the hoary hair; Be this in youth or age bestow'd, Calm the load of life I'll bear, And glad return to God. 70Ori., "tomb"; corrected in errata. Page 253 Hymn 786. "Early in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up." Psalm v. 3. Object of thy guardian care, Heaven-ward I direct my prayer, Rock of my security, Thankful I look up to thee; Blest with yet another day Let me live my God t' obey, Live thine utmost will to prove, Live to pray, repent, and love. "In thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple." Psalm v. 7. Assisted by preventing grace, I bow me toward the holy place, Faintly begin my God to fear, His weak, external worshipper: But if my Lord his blood apply, Entering into the holiest I Boldly approach my Father's throne, And claim him all in Christ my own. "In thee have I put my trust; save me." Psalm vii. 1. Save me, gracious Lord, for why? I believe thou canst, and wilt: I on thee alone rely; Purge, and wash out all my guilt: 71Wesley's citations of the Psalms are almost always from the translation in the Psalter in the Book of Common Prayer. Since this Psalter on occasion numbers verses different than in the Authorized Version, Wesley's numbering also differs at a few places.