Wesley Corpus

Issuing forth from him and thee O let THE BLESSING flow, Pour the streaming deity On all thy church below; Him to testify thy grace, Him to teach how good thou art, Him to vouch thy Godhead, place In every faithful heart. God of God, and light of light, Thee let him now reveal, Justify us by thy right, And stamp us with thy seal, Fill our souls with joy and peace, Wisdom, grace, and utterance give, Constitute thy witnesses, And in thy members live. By the Holy Ghost we wait To say thou art the Lord, Sav'd, and to our first estate In perfect love restor'd, Then we shall in every breath Testify the power we prove, Publish thee in life and death The God of truth and love. Hymn XV.13 John xvi. 6, 7. Son of God, for thee we languish, Still thy absence we bemoan, Overwhelm'd with grief and anguish, Poor, forsaken, and alone: Thou art to thy heaven departed; See us thence with pity see, Comfortless and broken-hearted, Drooping, dead for want of thee. 13Manuscript version appears in MS John, 326-27. Page 18 Once thy blissful love we tasted, Chear'd by thee with living bread; O how short a time it lasted, O how soon the joy is fled! Where is now our boasted Saviour, Where our rapture of delight! Thou hast Lord, withdrawn thy favour, Thou art vanish'd from our sight. Yet thou hast the cause unfolded, Could we but the truth receive, Thou in humbling love hast told it, Needful 'tis for us to grieve: Stript of that excessive pleasure Fondly we the loss deplore, 'Till we find again our treasure, Find, and never lose thee more. That we may thyself inherit Us thou dost a while forsake, That we may receive thy Spirit, Thou hast took his comforts back: After a short night of mourning We again shall see thy face, Triumph in thy full returning, Glory in thy perfect grace. For thy transient outward presence We thine endless love shall feel, Seated in our inmost essence Thou shalt by thy Spirit dwell: Jesus come! Thyself the giver Let us for the gift receive, Let us live in God forever, God in us forever live! Page 19 Hymn XVI.14 John xvi. 7.