Wesley Corpus

If thou my stubbornness convert, Converted I shall truly be, For thou the great Jehovah art, My Lord, my God, who died for me: Rent by that final groan divine, The rocky mountain12 must remove, And hearts inflexible as mine Bow down to thy expiring love. "Surely after that I was turned, I repented." Jer. xxxi. 19. Turn'd by thy Son's victorious blood, Father, I now at last repent, Instructed by thy mercy's rod With shame accept my punishment; Smiting on this unworthy breast To lift mine eyes I scarcely dare, Myself I loath, abhor, detest, And faint my youth's reproach to bear. "Is Ephraim my dear son, c." Jer. xxxi. 20. Father, for Jesu's sake alone, Tell me that thou art reconcil'd, And own a rebel for thy son, Thy son belov'd, thy pleasant child; Thy justice spake the afflicting word; But now with yearning pity see, With bowels of compassion stirr'd, And still for good remember me. 12Ori., "mountains"; corrected in errata. Page 32 Mercy I ask in Jesu's name, (Who bought the grace for all mankind) Forgiveness thro' his blood I claim, Forgiveness thro' his blood I find: For mercy and redeeming grace Still on my Saviour I depend, 'Till in his strength I win the race, And thro' his wounds to heaven ascend. "A woman shall compass a man." Jer. xxxi. 22. When he did our flesh assume That everlasting man, Mary held him in her womb Whom heaven could not contain! Who the mystery can believe? Incomprehensible thou art; Yet we still by faith conceive, And bear thee in our heart. "I will write my law in their hearts." Jer. xxxi. 33. That blessed law of thine, Jesus, to me impart, Thy Spirit's law of life divine, O write it in my heart; Implant it deep within, Whence it may ne'er remove, The law of liberty from sin, The perfect law of love. Thy nature be my law, Thy spotless sanctity, And sweetly every moment draw My happy soul to thee: Soul of my soul remain; Who didst for all fulfil, In me, O Lord, fulfil again Thy heavenly Father's will.