Wesley Corpus

Page 380 "For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, c." Isa. lx. 17, 18. O what a change shall then ensue! The former things are far remov'd, Nature is grace, and old is new, And all is heighten'd and improv'd: Your wood I will convert to brass; Your souls shall take a finer mould, The Jewish into Christian pass,105 The iron age be turn'd to gold. I will thine officers create, And fill their hearts with perfect peace, Thy publicans shall avarice hate, Renew'd in love and righteousness; No violence shall in thee be heard, Or sad complaint of lawless power, While Satan is no longer fear'd, And sin destroys thy land no more. Inclos'd with walls of living fire Thou shalt thy Saviour's name declare, Thy battlements to heaven aspire; And sav'd, thou art already there: Thy gates shall be entitled Praise, And those who humbly enter in Proclaim the glory of my grace, Forever emptied of all sin! "The sun shall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory." Isa. lx. 19. In presence of thy heavenly Lord The sun and moon eclips'd shall be, And when his kingdom is restor'd, Thy God is all in all to thee: 105Ori., "passi"; corrected in errata. Page 381 The sun and moon no more shall shine, Or chear thee with their glimmering ray, The brighter countenance divine Shall make thine everlasting day. "Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended." Isa. lx. 20. Fountain of light thy Saviour is, Thy Saviour is both moon and sun, A source of unexhausted bliss, A sun that can no more go down; Thy bliss shall neither change nor wane, When Jesus doth thy glory prove, And never shalt thou lose again Th' eternal sunshine of his love.