Wesley Corpus

With thee in full paternal might Vested, I shall go forth to fight, Shall see the nations broke, subdued, And scatter'd by thine iron rod, (Swift as the shiver'd vessel flies) And share the triumph of the skies. "I will give him the morning-star." Rev. ii. 28. Jesus, thou art that Morning-Star! Thy brightness in my heart declare, To me thine only glory shew, Thine only self on me bestow, I want no other light to see, No other stars or sun but thee. Page 419 Who walk enlighten'd by thy light Their morn hath no succeeding night, They by reflected lustre shine, And bright in majesty divine, Admire with all those stars above, The light of life, the God of love. "Strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die." Rev. iii. 2. What good remains in me? An impotent desire, A spark of faint sincerity, But ready to expire: Father, thy Spirit bestow; I ask in Jesu's name, And thus I strengthen it, and blow The spark into a flame. Lord, to thy cross I flee In my extreme distress, And take the strength laid up on thee To help my feebleness: Grace unto them that faint Thou promisest to give, And sure as grace supplies my want, My dying soul shall live. "He that overcometh, the same shall be cloathed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels." Rev. iii. 5. Happy forever happy I, If suffer'd with my Lord to die! O might I gain the victor's right, The robe of pure unspotted white, And wear the saints' celestial dress, The Lord my glorious righteousness. Soon as I win the vast reward, The joy for conquerors prepar'd, Wrote in the volume of the Lamb Thou never wilt blot out my name, But me before thy Father own, And rank with angels round thy throne. Page 420 "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." Rev. iii. 10.