Wesley Corpus

Looking unto Jesus. [From the German] [Maria Böhmer] Source: Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), Part I Author: Charles Wesley (attributed) --- Art thou idle? Sits there7 now, Giddy mirth upon thy brow? If thou hast no sighs and tears, Well thou hadst no guilt, or fears, Tears for living mourners plead; Nought avails the hopeless dead. If thou still canst idle be, Foolish soul who died for thee? Who forsook his throne on high, Laid his every glory by, Drank the dregs of wrath divine? Lord was ever love like thine! Idle mirth where art thou now? Where the giddy, thoughtless brow? Hast thou sinn’d? Lament and grieve: Hath God died? Believe, and live: Mirth adieu, and laughter vain! Laughter was not made for man. Looking unto Jesus. [From the German.]8 Regardless now of things below, Jesus, to thee my heart aspires, Determin’d thee alone to know, Author, and end of my desires: Fill me with righteousness divine; To end, as to begin, is thine. 7Ori., “their,” a misprint. 8Source: Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, ed. Das Gesang-Buch der Gemeine in Herrn-Huth (Halle: Wäysenhaus, 1737), 14 (#13, by Maria Böhmer). See Charles’s adaptation in MS Family, 8-9.