Wesley Corpus

Page 83 "When my soul fainted within me, I remembred the Lord, and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple." Jon. ii. 7. Ev'n now my tempted spirit faints, But calls thy days of flesh to mind: Remember thou thine own complaints, And let my prayer acceptance find; Jesus, my tears, and feeble cries Unite and mingle with thine own, So shall my wailing pierce the skies, And bring the Spirit from thy throne. "Salvation is of the Lord." Jon. ii. 9. Salvation is the work of God, A work entirely thine, Who bought'st our pardon with thy blood, Thy precious blood divine: Whose blood applied the pardon brings, And wholly sanctifies, And speaks above the better things, And speaks us to the skies. "The fish vomited out Jonah upon the dry land." Jon. ii. 10. Him dead and buried we confess, The storm our sins had rais'd t' appease, Three days and nights for us confin'd: But lo, emerging from the grave, He comes, a ransom'd world to save, He preaches life to all mankind! O that we all his words might hear, A greater far than Jonas fear, And live and die, at his command! Then shall the grave its prey restore, Rais'd by his resurrection's power, And cast us on the heavenly land.