Wesley Corpus

Page 218 If with a faithful heart I simply follow thee, Whate'er thou hast, whate'er thou art, Thou art, and hast for me. "Go in peace." Luke viii. 48. Lord, thou hast spoke me whole, And lo, I go in peace To perfect health of soul, To perfect holiness: And when possest of that high prize,30 I go in peace to paradise. "He suffered no man to go in." Luke viii. 51. O Saviour, make thy wisdom mine, Teach me by signs infallible, Thy miracles of grace divine When to display, and when conceal. "He charged them, that they should tell no man what was done." Luke viii. 56. O may I never take the praise Or my own glory spread, If made thine instrument to raise A sinner from the dead! O may I never boast my own Successful ministry, But sink forgotten and unknown, And swallow'd up in thee! "Forbid him not." Luke ix. 50. We will not chide thy followers, Lord, Distinct from us, who preach thy word, Who devils in thy name expel, And pluck poor sinners out of hell; We dare not enviously deny Their inward call to prophesy, 30John Wesley underlined "perfect holiness" in line 4 and "when" in line 5 in his personal copy, drawing an exclamation point in the margin near line 5.