Wesley Corpus

Jude vv. 14-15 vv. 20-21 v. 21 v. 24 Revelation of John Revelation (cont.) Page 3 Hymn 1161. "My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water." Jer. ii. 13. Ah! Lord, with late regret I own, I have the double evil done, Forsook the spring of life and peace, And toil'd for earthly happiness: But what in them I sought with pain, I could not from the creatures gain, The cisterns which my folly hew'd They would not hold one drop of good. Now for my double sin I grieve, Again the broken cisterns leave, Again I after thee would go, And gasp thy only love to know: Fountain of true felicity, Eternal God, spring up in me, And fill'd with life, and love, and power My heart shall never wander more. "Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?" Jer. ii. 17. The pains I have so long endur'd, I have unto myself procur'd,