Wesley Corpus

Page 113 "Smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones." Zech. xiii. 7. Smitten the shepherd was, Dispers'd the frighted sheep: But gather'd now beneath his cross He doth his people keep; From him, whose hand doth hold, We shall no more be driven, For when his bosom is our fold, We rest secure in heaven. "It shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off, and die." Zech xiii. 8. Dreadful, pride-chastising word Of surest prophecy! "Two in three that call thee Lord, Shall be cut off and die." Who should then of grace presume? Father, in thine hands I am, Save me from th' apostate's doom, I ask in Jesu's name. "But the third part shall be left therein." Zech. xiii. 8. Need I then, my God, despair Thy favour to retain? Lost if two in three there are, The third shall still remain: Of the third distinguish'd part That I may live forever one, Stamp thine image on my heart, And join me to thy Son. "I will bring the third part thro' the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried." Zech. xiii. 9. Tried is every faithful man, As gold and silver tried, Purg'd by grief, and purg'd by pain, And seven-times purified: