Wesley Corpus

Page 20 The man's authority is o'er, And Christ for sinners pleads no more. But Christ the God maintains his throne, No period shall his kingdom see, By nature with his Father One, A King from all eternity, The same Jehovah he remains, And o'er his saints for ever reigns. "When all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the SON also HIMSELF be SUBJECT unto him that put all things under him, that GOD may be all in all." 1 Cor. xv. 28. The kingdom he, as man, receives, Christ shall deliver up, as man; But still as God supreme he lives, As God he cannot cease to reign, Cannot be less than the Most High, As God, no more than he can die. His power the interceding Son To his almighty Sire submits, And then upon his Father's throne Jehovah in Jehovah sits, That the One glorious God in Three May all in all for ever be. "It is HE, which is ORDAINED of GOD to be the judge of quick and dead." Acts x. 42. The nature which its power receives Inferior is to that which gives, The human to divine: The man we in our Saviour see Made less than the divinity; But both in Jesus join. Page 21 Jesus as God we magnify, Jesus the same with the Most High: For God who did ordain The Son, his character express, To judge the world in righteousness, Will judge us IN that man! Ordain'd the Godhead cannot be; But cloth'd in our humanity He shall from heaven come down, And every prostrate soul adore The fulness of almighty power Jehovah in his Son. For this alone on earth we wait, With glorious pomp and solemn state To see the Lord descend Great arbiter of all mankind, And in the judge our brother find, Our advocate and friend. "Him GOD raised up, and SHEWED HIM openly to us who did eat, c." Acts x. 40. "After these things JESUS SHEWED HIMSELF again to his disciples." John xxi. 1. Of Christ the Son of man The Father doth dispose, And whom he rais'd to life again He to his followers shows: But Jesus doth the same; And sprinkling us with blood, To all believers in his name He shows himself, as God. In mystic unity With his almighty Sire, He shows himself alive to me, My longing heart's desire;