Wesley Corpus

Page 283 "A joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful." Psalm cxlvii. 1. How pleasant a thing With thanksgiving to sing, As with joy from the vale we remove! But pleasanter still When we stand on the hill, And give thanks to our Saviour above! "He healeth those that are broken in heart." Psalm cxlvii. 3. He heals the broken heart; But first he breaks the whole: Now Lord, thy grace impart Impoverishing my soul, And then set up thy kingdom here, And glorious on thy throne appear. "The Lord hath pleasure in his people." Psalm cxlix. 4. The Father in his saints delights Delighted in his Son, For whom true love to Christ unites They all with Christ are one. "Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord." Psalm cl. 6. Breathe in praise of your Creator, Every soul his honours raise, Magnify the Lord of nature, Magnify the God of grace, Hallelujah, Fill the universe with praise! Page 284 Hymn 900. "With all thy getting get wisdom." Prov. iv. 7. Worldly wretch, let go thy hold, Grasp at earth, at air, no more! Get th' imperishable gold, Wisdom's never-failing store: One of wisdom's mines possest Can no other riches see, Cries, "Who will may take the rest, Christ is wealth enough for me!" "The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." Prov. iv. 18. Shall we mistake the morning-ray Of grace for the full blaze of day? Or humbly walk in Jesu's sight, Glad to receive the gradual light,80 More of his grace and more to know, In faith and in experience grow, 'Till all the life of Christ we prove, And lose ourselves in perfect love! "Keep thy heart with all diligence." Prov. iv. 23. Shall I in thy care confide As superseding mine; Or, if watchful I abide, Assume the praise divine? 80John Wesley inserted "and sudden" (to follow "gradual") after this line in the margin of his personal copy. Page 285 No; if now I use thy grace, The power of using is from thee, Thou dost work (I still confess) To will, and do in me.