Wesley Corpus

What is it then, thy flesh to eat? O give mine inmost soul to know The nature of that heavenly meat, Design'd to quicken all below: What is it, Lord, to drink thy blood? Explain it to this heart of mine, And fill me with the life of God, The love, the holiness divine. "Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day." John vi. 54. Who now his flesh and blood partake, Partakers of the life divine, We soon shall see our Lord come back, His members all in one to join; And feeding on this living bread, This earnest of my glorious bliss, I too shall rise to meet my head, I too shall see him as he is. "My flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him." John vi. 55, 56. Saviour, thy flesh is meat indeed! Thy nature to thy church made known Doth every saint with manna feed, Till every saint with thee is one, Till blended with its heavenly food The soul thy gracious fulness feels, And all transform'd we dwell in God, And God in us forever dwells. "As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so, he that eateth me, even he shall live by me." John vi. 57. Stupendous miracle of love! Archangels cannot tell me how I live by thee, my life above, As by the living Father thou! Page 249 But sure as thee thro' faith I eat, Thy Spirit's substance I receive, And one with my mysterious meat Thro' all eternity shall live. "It is the spirit that quickneth, the flesh profiteth nothing." John vi. 63. Thy word in the bare literal sense, Tho' heard ten thousand times, and read, Can never of itself dispense The saving power which wakes the dead: The meaning spiritual and true The learn'd expositor may give, But cannot give the virtue too, Or bid his own dead spirit live.