Wesley Corpus

Page 16 Which vain philosophy denies, And baffles us with glozing lies, Thy glorious deity blasphemes With Arian or Socinian dreams, To cast the weak believers down, And rob the children of their crown. But grounded on thy written word, We worship our Almighty Lord: In thee, whom thy own Spirit reveals, The fulness of the Godhead dwells: Thy person really divine, Thy body is Jehovah's shrine, The whole substantial Deity Resides eternally in thee. "THE WORD WAS GOD." John i. 1. The Word was independent God, God uncreated and supreme: All things from him their fountain flow'd, Whate'er was made, was made by him: When heaven and earth began to be, The glorious absolute I AM, He was from all eternity To all eternity the same. "Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, THE MIGHTY GOD, THE EVERLASTING FATHER." Isa. ix. 6. Jesus, thou art the mighty God, The Child and Son on us bestow'd, Jehovah born on earth, in thee The everlasting Sire we see, And all thy church triumphant sings The Prince of Peace, the King of kings. Page 17 Thou art the co-eternal Son, In substance with thy Father One, In Person different we proclaim, In power and majesty the same, For him in thee we magnify, And thee in him, the Lord most high. No vain distinction we confess Betwixt a greater God and less; No inequality there is, But his are thine, and thine are his, And thee we on thy Father's seat One glorious God for ever greet. "This is the name whereby he shall be called JEHOVAH our Righteousness." Jer. xxiii. 6. Jesus our righteousness Jehovah we confess: Very man of very man, Him who bought us with his blood, We and all his church maintain Very God of very God. Jesus, Jehovah, hear, And what thou art appear! By a faithless world denied, Fulness of the Deity, Is there any God beside? Answer for thyself in me. "The LORD ALONE shall be EXALTED in that day: and the IDOLS he shall utterly abolish." Isa. ii. 17, 18. To destroy idolatry, God was manifest below; God we in our Saviour see, None beside himself we know: