Wesley Corpus

The name peculiarly divine Which doth his nature best express, To the Three Persons we assign, And each substantial God confess: Rivals of his celestial host We triumph here like those above, And Father, Son, and Holy Ghost The One supreme Jehovah love. "The same LORD over all is rich unto all that call upon him." Rom. x. 12. "A Saviour which is Christ the LORD." Luke ii. 11. "Who hath known the mind of the LORD?" Rom. xi. 34. "Who hath directed the SPIRIT of the Lord?" Isa. xl. 13. Page 73 The Trinity in Unity Is by the church ador'd, Which each of the mysterious Three Acknowledges for Lord; We all the Lord our Father bless, The Lord our Saviour own, The Lord the Spirit we confess, For ever Three in One. "The multitude glorified the God of Israel." Matt. xv. 31. "The children of Israel shall be turned to the Lord THEIR GOD: and he shall go before HIM." Luke i. 16, 17. "The SPIRIT of the Lord spake by me ... the GOD of Israel said." 2 Sam. xxiii. 2, 3. Israel the Father calls his son, And Jesus is the Lord their God, The Spirit claims them for his own, On whom his prophets he bestow'd, The Spirit who by David spoke The word he never will revoke. Each Person of the mystic Three The God of Israel we adore, As was, and is, and still shall be, When time and nature are no more: The Tri-une God we then shall praise In glorious, everlasting lays. "I myself serve the LAW of GOD." Rom. vii. 25. "Fulfil the LAW of CHRIST." Gal. vi. 2. "The LAW of the Spirit of life." Rom. viii. 2. "There is ONE LAWGIVER who is able to save and to destroy." James iv. 12. Page 74 We the Father's law receive, The law of Christ fulfil, Keep the Spirit's law, and live According to his will; Live to make the mystery known, And testify, from sin set free, God our lawgiver is One, But One in Persons Three.