Wesley Corpus

Help, eternal Spirit divine, And stem the tide of sin, Lo, our enemy and thine Is as a flood come in: In these last apostate days Out of his mouth the dragon pours Rapid streams of wickedness, And hell thy church devours. Spirit of faith, the cross lift up; By Jesus on the tree Sin and Satan's progress stop, And end th' apostasy: Jesus to the world reveal The sole, supream, expiring God, Cast th' accuser down to hell Thro' his victorious blood. Then mankind shall magnify The great incarnate Word, Fear that name of God most high That glory of the Lord, Every joyful tongue shall sing Jehovah shining in the Son, Christ, the universal King On his millennial throne! 102John Wesley underlined "exquisite distress" in line 6 and "'Till" in line 7 of this stanza in his personal copy, adding in the margin "Q" (for Question). Page 373 "The Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob." Isa. lix. 20. Saviour of the world, come down To thy Jerusalem, Those who trust in thee alone Almighty to redeem, Strugling, crush'd beneath the load, Who turn from all their sins to thee, Come, and sprinkle with thy blood And set thy people free. "As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord, My Spirit that is upon thee, c." Isa. lix. 21. Christ, the church's head with thee Thy body must endure, Sion's perpetuity By covenant is sure: Giv'n thro' thee to all thy seed, The Spirit shall with thy church abide, Teach, and comfort us, and lead, Our soul's eternal guide. All which thou hast heard above Thou dost to man declare; Words of life, and truth, and love, By thee inspoken are, Richly in thy saints they dwell, Nor ever from their mouth depart: Witnesses for God, they tell The gladness of their heart. All that on thy name believe, In every age and place, Shall the Holy Ghost receive Mixt with the word of grace: In thy church, 'till time shall end, Thy Spirit, Lord, shall still abide, Till thou in the clouds descend To fetch thy ready bride.