Wesley Corpus

But breathing in the sacred leaves If on the soul thy Spirit move, The re-begotten soul receives The quickning power of faith and love; Transmitted thro' the gospel-word Whene'er the Holy Ghost is given, The sinner hears, and feels restor'd The life of holiness and heaven. "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." John vi. 63. Jesus, descended from the sky, The power of God in man thou art; Thyself, to whom I now apply, Speak thy own words into my heart: Thy words are more than empty sound, Inseparably one with thee; Spirit in them, and life is found, And all the depths of deity. While feebly gasping at thy feet A sinner in my sins I bow, O might I now my Saviour meet, And hear and feel thy sayings now! Page 250 Speak, and thy word the dead shall raise, Shall me with spirit and life inspire; Speak on, and fill my soul with grace, And add me to thy deathless quire. "Will ye also go away?" John vi. 67. Yes, unless thou hold me fast, After all thy love to me I shall faithless prove at last, Treacherously depart from thee; But that we may never part, Hide me, hide me in thine heart. "Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink." John vii. 37. Ye thirsty for God to Jesus give ear, And take thro' his blood the power to draw near, His kind invitation, ye sinners, embrace, The sense of salvation accepting thro' grace. Sent down from above who governs the skies In vehement love to sinners he cries, "Drink into my Spirit, who happy would be, And all things inherit by coming to me." O Saviour of all, thy word we believe, And come at thy call, thy grace to receive; The blessing is given, wherever thou art: The earnest of heaven is love in the heart. To us at thy feet the Comforter give, Who gasp to admit thy Spirit and live: The weakest believers acknowledge for thine, And fill us with rivers of water divine. Page 251 "Have any of the rulers, or of the Pharisees believed on him?" John vii. 48.