Wesley Corpus

Deeply, justly sensible Then the general loss we feel, Testify our grateful love, Weep for one who sings above. "Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God." Acts viii. 21. To the world and Satan sold, Sinner, what is Christ to thee? Pleasure is thy god, or gold: Bondslave of iniquity, Can'st thou feel an heavier chain, Panting for the praise of men? Didst thou ever yet intend God in all thy ways to please? No; the creature is thy end: Dost thou not the charge confess? Naked in its Maker's sight, Ask thy heart, if it be right. Page 269 No; thy guilty heart must own, Far from God, and foul as hell: Feel it now, and deeply groan All thy filthiness to feel, Struggle in th' infernal snare, Sink at last in self-despair. Then behold the heavenly Lamb, Pouring out his blood divine, On the brink of Tophet claim Christ the sinner's friend for thine, Find with all his saints thy part, Find thy Saviour in thy heart. "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" Acts ix. 6. Mine eyes are ever unto thee, 'Till open'd by thy love they see: Yet still thou must thy counsel shew, For still I know not what to do: I would not see, but in thy light; I would not walk, but by thy might; Or work a work, or speak a word, Or think a thought, without my Lord. "The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch." Acts xi. 26. Happy the men who first partook The name and nature of their Lord! They all iniquity forsook, And God in spirit and truth ador'd, What they were call'd, they were indeed, Anointed with Jehovah's power, His children by his Spirit led, And born of God they sinn'd no more. But millions now with lips prophane The venerable name assume, And dead in sins, confess in vain That Jesus in the flesh is come: Page 270 The form of godliness they have, The power, the unction they deny, And will not let the Saviour save, But heathens live, and heathens die. "The angel smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost." Acts xii. 23.