Wesley Corpus

Wilt thou not the promise seal, True and gracious as thou art, Send the Comforter to dwell Every moment in our heart? Yes, thou must the grace bestow, Jesus said It shall be so! Hymn X.5 John xiv. 18, 19, 20, 21. Saviour, and Prince of Peace, Thy saying we receive; Thou wilt not leave us comfortless, Thine own thou wilt not leave: Poor helpless orphans we A while thine absence mourn, But we thy face again shall see, But thou wilt soon return. No longer visible To eyes of flesh and blood, Come, Lord, to us thyself reveal, O come, and shew us God: Because thou liv'st above Let us thy Spirit know, And in the glorious knowledge prove Eternal life below. Hasten the day, when we Shall surely know and feel Thou art in God, and God in thee, And thou in us dost dwell. To us, who keep thy word Thou with thy Father come, And love, and make us, dearest Lord, Thine everlasting home. 5Manuscript version appears in MS John, 292. Page 14 Hymn XI.6 John xiv. 21, 22, 23. O happy state of grace In which by faith we stand! Who Jesu's word obeys, And keeps his kind command Communion closer still shall know, And dwell with God in him, below. The man whose heart approves The precepts of his Lord, The path of duty loves, And practises the word, To Jesus and his Father dear Shall entertain the Godhead here. Not to those earliest days, The promise was confin'd, The Spirit of his grace Extends to all mankind, And all who love the Lord receive The Lord within their hearts to live. O Son of God, to thee We make our bold appeal; Would'st thou the deity To all the world reveal? Thou Lord the faithful witness art; Return the answer in our heart. Come quickly from above And bring the Father down, Infuse the perfect love, Make all the Godhead known, Come, Father, Son and Spirit come, And seal us thine eternal home. 6Manuscript version appears in MS John, 295-96. Page 15 Hymn XII.7 John xiv. 25, 26, 27. Jesus, we on the8 words9 depend Spoken by thee while present here, The Father in my name shall send The Holy Ghost, the Comforter.