Wesley Corpus

Page 334 Purchas'd by thine expiring groan, And feel it in my heart made known. Ah, Saviour, now in me reveal Th' eternal life thou dost bestow, And when my mortal foe I feel, I'll trample on my mortal foe, Into thine hands my spirit give, And long as my Redeemer live. "I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day." 2 Tim. i. 12. I know in whom I have believ'd, Who, when this precious faith he gave, My soul into his hands receiv'd, And bad me trust his power to save: His Spirit doth my heart assure, That what I still to him commend, His constant love shall keep secure, 'Till faith fill'd up in vision end. "If we suffer, we shall also reign, with him." 2 Tim. ii. 12. Thou man of affliction and woe, What is it, to suffer with thee? Thy secret I languish to know, Thy passion and death on the tree: Thou, Jesus, alone canst explain, And give me a sense of thy load: Ah, shew me in darkness and pain75 The heart of a crucified God. If tempted in death, and forsook Thy burthen unknowing I bear, To God with astonishment look, Nor find a return of my prayer; Assure me, my anguish is thine; This hope to a sinner afford, And lo, I my spirit resign, And chearfully die with my Lord!76 75John Wesley underlined "darkness and pain" in his personal copy. 76John Wesley underlined "and forsook" in line 1, "with astonishment" in line 3, and "chearfully die" in line 8 in his personal copy, drawing an exclamation point in the margin after line 1. Page 335 Or let me in sorrow remain, So thou my Redeemer art nigh, Thy marks in my body sustain, And daily in agonies die,77 Fill up thy afflictions below, So thou to my conscience reveal Thou dost my infirmities know, My griefs thou art troubled to feel.