Wesley Corpus

Convince the souls, who feel their sin, There is, there is a ransom found, A better righteousness brought in, And grace doth more than sin abound, Pardon to all is freely given, For Jesus is return'd to heaven. He died to purge our guilty stain, He rose the world to justify, 21Manuscript version appears in MS John, 333-34. Page 23 And while the heavens our Lord contain, No longer seen by mortal eye, He reigns our Advocate above, And pleads for all his bleeding love. His bleeding love 'tis thine to seal With pardon on the contrite heart: To us, to us the grace reveal, The righteousness impute, impart, Discharge thy second function here, And now descend the Comforter. The righteousness of Christ our Lord For pardon of our sins declare, Inspeak the everlasting word That freely justified we are, By grace receiv'd, and brought to God, And sav'd through faith in Jesu's blood. Hymn XX.22 Spirit of faith, on thee we call, The merits of our Lord apply, Convince, and then convert us all, Condemn, and freely justify, Set forth the all-atoning Lamb, And spread the powers of Jesu's name. Jesus the merciful and just To every heart of man reveal, In him enable us to trust, Forgiveness thro' his blood to feel, Let all in him redemption find; Sprinkle the blood on all mankind. Is he not to his Father gone, That we his righteousness might share! And art thou not on earth sent down The fruit of his prevailing prayer, 22Manuscript version appears in MS John, 334-35. Page 24 The witness of his grace, and seal, The heavenly gift unspeakable! O might we each receive the grace By thee to call the Saviour mine! Come, Holy Ghost, to all our race, Bring in the righteousness divine, Inspire the sense of sin forgiven, And give our earth a taste of heaven. Hymn XXI.23 Again, thou Spirit of burning come, Thy last great office to fulfil, To shew the hellish tyrant's doom, The hellish tyrant's doom to seal, To drive him from thy sacred shrine, And fill our souls with life divine. Of judgment now the world convince, The end of Jesu's coming shew, To sentence their usurping prince, Him and his works destroy below, To finish, end, abolish sin, And bring the heavenly nature in.