Wesley Corpus

Righteous as my God am I? No; but his reverse I am, All pretence to good deny, Every righteous work disclaim, One I never yet have done, Righteous is my God alone. Page 401 But canst thou account me just, And yet never make me so? Grafted into Christ, I trust Holy as the root to grow; Holy then my works shall be, Then my fruit is found of thee. "For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil." 1 John iii. 8. Son of God, thine anger shew Against our foes and thine, Manifested here below Fulfil thine own design, Satan's reign and works to end Thine own almighty grace employ, Thrust him out, this inbred fiend, And all our sins destroy. "We know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit, which he hath given us." 1 John iii. 24. 'Tis this essentially divides The living from the dead, We know the Lord in us abides, The Spirit of our head: O let us in this knowledge grow, Hold fast the earnest given, 'Till Jesus with himself bestow The ripest joys of heaven. "Believe not every spirit." 1 John iv. 1. Thy hasty servant, Lord, restrain, 'Till perfectly renew'd, As prone alas, to trust in man, As to mistrust my God! And lest I every spirit receive With blind credulity, Help me each moment to believe With all my soul in thee.