Wesley Corpus

Business. Alter’d from [George] Herbert Source: Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), Part I Author: Charles Wesley (attributed) --- Lone unfrequented wilds they trod, O’er mountain-tops the wanderers ran, With milder beasts in dens abode, And shun’d the haunts of savage man. Verses XXXIX, XL. Famed for their faith all these believ’d, By justifying faith made whole: Nor yet the promis’d grace receiv’d, The Christ, the fulness in their soul. A better gift he us provides, On whom the gospel-times are come; And lo! The Holy Ghost abides In us, and makes our hearts his home. We now our elder brethren meet, Their faith, and happiness improve, And soon with them shall shine compleat In Christ, and perfected in love. Business.6 Alter’d from Herbert. Art thou idle? Canst thou play? Foolish soul, who sinn’d to day? He that loseth gold, tho’ dross, Tells to all he meets his loss: What for shadows hast thou given? Peace, and joy, and love, and heaven. 6Source: George Herbert, The Temple (Cambridge: Buck & Daniel, 1633), 105-106 (#88); omitted from 4th edn. (1743) and following.