Wesley Corpus

Looking unto Jesus. [From the German] [Maria Böhmer] (The Same) Source: Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), Part I Author: Charles Wesley (attributed) --- What is a worthless worm to thee? What is in man thy grace to move? That still thou seekest those who flee The arms of thy pursuing love? That still thy inmost bowels cry “Why, sinner, wilt9 thou perish, why?” Ah show me, Lord, my depth of sin! Ah, Lord, thy depth of mercy show! End, Jesus, end this war within: No rest my spirit e’er shall know, Till thou thy quickning influence give: Breathe, Lord, and these dry bones shall live. There, there before the throne thou art, The Lamb ere10 earth’s foundations slain! Take thou, O take this guilty heart; Thy blood will wash out every stain: No cross, no sufferings I decline; Only let all my heart be thine! The Same [Looking unto Jesus]. God of love, incline thine ear! Christ my King, Haste and bring Thy salvation near. 9Ori. “will”; corrected in 4th edn. (1743) and following. 10Ori., ‘e’er’; but clearly used in sense of ‘before’. Thee my restless soul requires; Restless till Thou fulfill All its large desires. Only thou to me be given; Thou be mine, I resign All in earth and heaven. Jesus, come, my sickness cure; Shew thine art, Cleanse a heart Full of thoughts impure. Painfully it now aspires To be free, Full of thee, Full of hallow’d fires. Lo, I tread on deaths and snares, Sinking still Into ill, Plung’d in griefs and cares. When, O when wilt thou appear? O draw nigh! Say, “’Tis I;” And I will not fear.