Wesley Corpus

The blood which made our conscience pure, Full confidence imparts: Thy testimony, Lord, is sure In all thy children's hearts, The Spirit of thy Son within, Who Abba Father cries, Redeems the faithful soul from sin, And wholly sanctifies. "And if children then heirs, c." Rom. viii. 17. Children of God, thro' Jesu's love, We rise undoubted heirs; His rich inheritance above He with his brethren shares; His glorious joy, his full reward We surely shall obtain, If following our afflicted Lord, We die with Christ to reign. "We are saved by hope." Rom. viii. 24. Sav'd by faith we once have been From the guilt and power of sin, Page 283 But while the dire root remains, Hope our fainting soul sustains: Tempted to give up our shield, Sav'd by hope we cannot yield, Sav'd by hope, we wait to prove All the holiness of love. "The Spirit helpeth our infirmities." Rom. viii. 26. Spirit of interceding grace, I know not how, or what to pray; Assist my utter helplesness, The power into my heart convey, That God acknowledging thy groan, May answer in my prayers his own. "If God be for us, who can be against us?" Rom. viii. 31. Our Lord is for us: sin, devils, and men With malice oppose, with violence vain; Howe'er they alarm us who evil intend, They never can harm us, while God is our friend. "In all these things we are more than conquerors." Rom. viii. 37. Conform'd to our head in outward distress, In sorrow, and need, in pain, and disgrace, All happy and glorious we inwardly prove, And more than victorious thro' Jesus's love. "I was found of them that sought me not." Rom. x. 20. With the first spark of good desire Thou dost every soul inspire, And offerest all thy grace, Found of a world that sought thee not; Yet Israel fears himself forgot, Whene'er thou hid'st thy face. Page 284 "Be not high-minded, but fear." Rom. xi. 20. Nature's high-mindedness How shall I lay aside? I cannot, Lord, myself abase, Myself divest of pride: But if thou speak the word, The word imparts the fear, And poor, and vile, and self-abhor'd I at thy feet appear.