Wesley Corpus

Page 272 "O visit me with thy salvation." Psalm cvi. 4. Salvation gladly I embrace Because it comes with thee: Jesus, my strength and righteousness, And sole salvation be: When thou the gift unspeakable Into my heart art given, Thy fulness, Lord, in me shall dwell, Thy nature and thy heaven. "He will ever be mindful of his covenant." Psalm cxi. 5. Thy covenant this, that I shall know How merciful in Christ thou art, Shall feel his blood and Spirit flow In purest streams throughout my heart, Nor from my Father's arms remove, Lov'd with an everlasting love. "Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling." Psalm cxvi. 8. My soul thro' my Redeemer's care Sav'd from the second death I feel, Mine eyes from tears of vain despair, My feet from falling into hell: Wherefore to him my feet shall run, Mine eyes on his perfections gaze, My soul shall live for God alone, And all within me shout his praise. "What reward shall I give unto the Lord for all the benefits that he hath done unto me? I will receive the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord." Psalm cxvi. 11, 12. O what shall I say? What recompence pay, Page 273 To the giver of all I possess? I will gladly receive, While he offers to give His unsearchable riches of grace. I will call on his name, And with singing proclaim The perfection of Jesus his love; I will drink the full cup, Till he beckons me up, To enjoy his salvation above. "Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall, but the Lord was my help." Psalm cxviii. 13. Full oft thou hast my helper been, When sorely by the world assail'd, By Satan, and my bosom sin, My goings, Lord, had well-nigh fail'd: Thou hast, in honour of thy name, Snatch'd me out of the lion's teeth, Pluck'd as a brand out of the flame, And sav'd my soul from endless death. "The Lord hath chastened and corrected me, but he hath not given me over unto death." Psalm cxviii. 18. My merciful God hath chasten'd his son,78 His fatherly rod I thankfully own, He hath not rejected, or left me to die, But gently corrected, and laid the rod by.