Wesley Corpus

Lord, as taught by thee, we pray That sin and death may end: In the great millennial day With all thy saints descend: Now display'd with glorious power Let that final empire rise, Stand, when time shall be no more, Eternal in the skies. "O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter." Dan. iii. 16. O for the faith in Jesu's name Which tyrants can despise, Which triumphs o'er the threatening flame, And all its rage defies; Calmly replies with resolute scorn To furious cruelty, "My body tear, or rack, or burn, Ye cannot injure me." "Our God whom we serve, is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace." Dan. iii. 17. Let the horrific king appear And all his terrors shew, True Israelites disdain to fear A stingless, baffled foe: Tho' seven-times hotter than before The torturing fires increase, The Lord our God whom we adore Can save his witnesses. "And he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king." Dan. iii. 17. Let earth and hell their powers employ, A sure defence we have, They are not nearer to destroy, Than Jesus is to save: Page 60 And if it serve thy glory, thou Shalt pluck us from the flame, Our God in ages past, and now, And evermore the same. "But if not, we will not serve thy gods, nor, c." Dan. iii. 18. But if thou wilt not save us here From the tormenter's power, Faithful to death we persevere, And meet the fiery hour: We will not bow our heart or knee, And live to idols join'd, Assur'd the life we lose for thee In paradise to find. "Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God." Dan. iii. 25. Behold the miracle renew'd! Whom faith divine inspires, We walk with Christ the Son of God, And praise him in the fires: Kept by his presence and his name, Who earth and hell subdued, We quench the violence of the flame Thro' our Redeemer's blood.