Wesley Corpus

The common peace we feel ; A peace to sensual minds unknown, A joy unspeakable. 6 And if our fellowship below In Jesus be so sweet, What heights of rapture shall we know, When round his throne we meet ! For the Society Praying. HYMN 501. c. m. 1 TESUS, great Shepherd of the sheep, J To thee for help we fly ; Thy little flock in safety keep ; For, O ! the wolf is nigh. 2 He comes, of hellish malice full, To scatter, tear, and slay ; He seizes every straggling soul, As his own lawful prey. 3 Us into thy protection take, And gather with thy arm ; Unless the fold we first forsake, The wolf can never harm. 4 We laugh to scorn his cruel power, While by our Shepherd's side : The sheep he never can devour, Unless he first divide. For the Society Praying. 469 5 O do not suffer him to part The souls that here agree ; But make us of one mind and heart, And keep us one in thee ! 6 Together let us sweetly live, Together let us die ; And each a starry crown receive, And reign above the sky. HYMN 502. cm. 1 /OME, thou omniscient Son of Man, -/ Display thy sifting power ; Come with thy Spirit's winnowing fan, And throughly purge thy floor. 2 The chaff of sin, the' accursed thing. Far from our souls be driven ! The wheat into thy garner bring, And lay us up for heaven. 3 Look through us with thy eyes of flame. The clouds and darkness chase ; And tell me what by sin 1 am, And what I am by grace. 4 Whate'er offends thy glorious eyesj Far from our hearts remove ; As dust before the whirlwind flies, Disperse it by thy love. 5 Then let us all thy fulness know, From every sin set free ; Saved, to the utmost saved below. And perfectly like thee. 4/0 For the Society Praying. HYMN 503. c. m. 1 HHRY us, O God, and search the ground J- Of every sinful heart : Whate'er of sin in us is found, O bid it all depart ! 2 When to the right or left we stray, Leave us not comfortless ; But guide our feet into the way Of everlasting peace.