Wesley Corpus

Page 91 Hymn 1381. "O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not save!" Hab. i. 2. How long shall I languish and moan, How long of oppression complain, In sorrow and heaviness groan, And cry for a Saviour in vain? To save me from sin and from fear Both able, and willing thou art; O bring the deliverance near, And whisper it into my heart. "I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me." Hab. ii. 1. By faith I set me on the tower, And watch the answer of my prayer: Hasten, O Lord, the joyful hour, And all thy name in me declare; O tell me now that love thou art, Speak to my troubled conscience peace, Speak power into my feeble heart, And life, and perfect holiness. Page 92 "The vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie." Hab. ii. 3. By faith I Babel's fall foresee, The Babel of indwelling sin: I know the promise is for me, And wait th' accomplishment within: Thy word in that appointed day Faithful and true we all shall prove, And seeming slow, thou wilt not stay, But come, and perfect us in love. "The just shall live by his faith." Hab. ii. 4. By faith accounted just, By faith to God we live, With patience wait his time, and trust His fulness to receive; That finish'd holiness We must at last obtain: And faith shall then in vision cease, And love triumphant reign. "The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea." Hab. ii. 14. Come, the Lord our righteousness, Jehovah, from above, Ocean of unbounded grace, Of glorious life and love; Love immensely deep and wide, Without a bottom or a shore! Never shall that sea be dried, When time shall be no more. "O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known: in wrath remember mercy." Hab. iii. 2. Father of everlasting grace, Revive thy work of righteousness,