Wesley Corpus

Page 301 "Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." 2 Cor. v. 17. Hasten the joyful day Which shall my sins consume, When old things shall be past away, And all things new become; Th' original offence Out of my heart erase, Enter thyself and drive it hence, And take up all the place. "As though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's48 stead, be ye reconciled to God." 2 Cor. v. 20. Mystery of amazing grace! Heaven's offended majesty Sues to the offending race, "Pray be reconcil'd to me, Me, who all your evil know, Me, already pacified, Me, who liv'd, a Man of Woe, Me, who for my rebels died!" "I have heard thee in a time accepted." 2 Cor. vi. 2. Indeed thou hast thy servant heard In an accepted time of love, And sav'd me from the hell I fear'd, And bid the mountain-sin remove, That put among thy children I Might Father, Abba Father, cry. "Now is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation." 2 Cor. vi. 2. Now the season is of love And heavenly visitation! Sinners, know the time, and prove The day of your salvation: All may now in Christ retrieve God the Father's favour, Claim the Holy Ghost, and live Priests and kings forever! 48Ori., "Christ"; an error. Page 302 "As having nothing, and yet possessing all things." 2 Cor. vi. 10. Nothing have I of my own, But sin and wretchedness; All things are compriz'd in one, And I that one possess: God in man his Son reveals; Fulness of the deity, Heaven itself in Jesus dwells, And Jesus dwells in me. "In weariness and painfulness." 2 Cor. xi. 27. Weary life of sin and grief, O when shall it be o'er! Destitute of love's relief, I can hold out no more: But if love my cross sustain, If Jesus makes my burthens his, Weariness is rest, and pain Is everlasting bliss. "But now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be." 2 Cor. xii. 6. Is it, great God, to honour thee, That men their glorious state declare, Void of the godly jealousy, The lowly self-mistrusting fear? No, their own praises they repeat, And incense burn to their own net.