Wesley Corpus

Page 45 When he speaks the promise seal'd In saints his permanent abode, With Jehovah's Spirit fill'd, We all are fill'd with God. "The TEMPLE of GOD is holy, which temple are YE." 1 Cor. iii. 16. "Know ye not, that YOUR BODIES are the TEMPLE of the HOLY GHOST?" 1 Cor. vi. 19. When the Spirit thou bestow'st, Our indwelling Comforter, Temples of the Holy Ghost, We, O God, thy temples are: Full of confidence divine Feels our heart its heavenly guest: Thou art come into thy shrine: Here, O God, for ever rest. By his residence below In this weak corporeal frame, Thee we with thy Spirit know Co-essentially the same: With thy Son and Spirit One, Father, bid thy temples rise, Shine, when time its course hath run, Blaze eternal in the skies. "Then was Jesus LED up BY THE SPIRIT, to be TEMPTED." Matt. iv. 1. "OUR FATHER which art in heaven ... LEAD us not into TEMPTATION." Luke xi. 2, 4. Who into temptation led God's well-beloved Son, Born to bruise the serpent's head And tread the tempter down? Page 46 Who of final victory Did the occasion sure afford? Third of the mysterious Three, That Spirit was the Lord. Born again, and led by him, We are the sons of God, Own his deity supreme, And publish him abroad, One with God the Son adore, One with God the Father praise, Glorious theme, when time is o'er, Of everlasting lays. "Blessed be GOD, even the GOD of all COMFORT." 2 Cor. i. 3. God of all consolation, The Holy Ghost thou art, Thy secret inspiration Hath told it to my heart: The blessing I inherit, Thro' Jesus' prayer bestow'd, The Comforter, the Spirit, The true eternal God. With God the Son and Saviour, With God the Father One, The tokens of his favour Thou mak'st to sinners known, An antipast of heaven Thou dost in me reveal, Attest my sins forgiven, And my salvation seal. Th' indubitable witness Of thy own deity, Thou giv'st my soul its fitness Thy glorious face to see: