Wesley Corpus

Page 205 "Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief." Mark ix. 24. Lord, I believe, thou wilt forgive, But help me to believe thou dost: The answer of thy promise give, Wherein thou causest me to trust, The gospel-faith divine impart, Which seals my pardon on my heart. "I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him." Mark ix. 25. Jesus, my Lord, I cry to thee Against the spirit unclean; I want a constant liberty A perfect rest from sin: Expel the fiend out of my heart By love's almighty power, Now, now command him to depart, And never enter more. "Ye belong to Christ." Mark ix. 41. Jesus, I belong to thee, Challenge thine own property, Made, and bought by love divine, Thine I am, and doubly thine: Lest thro' me thou suffer loss, Nail me to thy bleeding cross; Farther to secure thine own, Fix me on thy glorious throne. "Their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched." Mark ix. 44. The word his sacred lips hath past! And shall I trust th' infernal liar, Who whispers soft "But God at last Will kill the worm, and quench the fire!" Get thee behind me, fiend, say I, Thine eloquence on others try,