Wesley Corpus

The testifying Spirit Thy deity asserts, Imputes thy righteous merit, And plants it in our hearts; He takes of thine, and shows us The pure atoning blood; And then the stream o'erflows us, And bears our souls to God. Page 117 By faith divine perceiving The hidden mystery, With strong affection cleaving To God in Persons Three, One undivided nature We now in Three attest, And in our New-Creator His happy children rest. Infallibly assured The heavenly Three are One, We taste the bliss procured By thy expiring groan: We soon o'er death victorious Shall all thy joy receive, And in our bodies glorious Thy life eternal live. How empty our external boast, Who the true God adore In Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Nor know his gracious power: Strangers to vital piety, If sunk in sin we lie, The truth which hath not made us free, Our careless lives deny. Our faith is but a shadow vain, Unless it works by love, And sav'd from sin, and born again We seek the things above: Unless we have the sacred Trine Into our hearts receiv'd, And I can call each Person mine, I have not yet believ'd. God inaccessible, unknown, If thro' thy precious grace Convinc'd of unbelief I groan To see thy smiling face: Page 118 The veil of unbelief remove, The sins I now confess, And give my new-born soul to prove The power of godliness. Thee that I may my Father know, A grain of faith impart, The Spirit of thy Son bestow To witness in my heart; That thou in Christ art reconcil'd, My conscience certify, And then thy dear adopted child, I Abba Father cry. Son of the living God, appear, And tell me thou art he, Jehovah manifested here In frail humanity: Author of faith, thou only knowst The Father to reveal; And breath'd by thee, the Holy Ghost Doth in thy people dwell. Thou Lamb of God, who bear'st away The universal sin, Thy sin-forgiving power display, And touch a leper clean: The gracious mystery make known, Apply th' atoning blood, And vanquish'd by thy cross, I own Thou art my Lord, my God.