Wesley Corpus

Page 397 Hymn 781. "Make your calling and election sure." 2 Pet. i. 10. Knowing that reconcil'd thou art, I make my calling sure; But stamp thine image on my heart, But speak my nature pure: Then, only then, elect I am, When sanctified by grace, And sure, inscrib'd with thy new name,120 To see thy glorious face. "So an entrance shall be ministred unto you abundantly, into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ." 2 Pet. i. 11. Wrestling on for faith's increase, Striving to perform his will, Labouring after holiness, Straining up perfection's hill, Let me thus 'till death be found;121 Dying thus I shall not die, But with brighter glory crown'd, Reign with Christ above the sky. "Shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me." 2 Pet. i. 14. I too, forewarn'd by Jesu's love, Must shortly lay my body down; But ere122 my soul from earth remove, O let me put thine image on! 120John Wesley underlined "sure, inscrib'd" in his personal copy, querying in the margin "How?". 121John Wesley underlined "up perfection's" in line 4 and "'till death" in line 5 in his personal copy. 122Ori., "e'er"; but clearly used in sense of "before."