Wesley Corpus

Upon Parting with His Friends. [Part] I [Part] V Source: Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), Part I Author: Charles Wesley (attributed) --- Henceforth thy only will I chuse, To Christ I die, to Christ I live; Had I a thousand lives to lose, Had I a thousand friends to give, All, all I would to thee restore, And grieve that I could give no more. [Part] V.25 Jesus, in whom the weary find Their late and26 permanent repose; Physician of the sin-sick mind, Relieve my wants, assuage my woes; And let my soul on thee be cast, ’Till life’s fierce tyranny be27 past. Loosed from my God, and far remov’d, Long have I wander’d to and fro, O’er earth in endless circles rov’d, Nor found whereon to rest below; Back to my God at last I fly, For O! The waters still are high. Selfish pursuits, and nature’s maze, The things of earth for thee I leave, Put forth thy hand, thy hand of grace, Into the ark of love receive; Take this poor flutt’ring soul to rest, And lodge it, Saviour, in thy breast. Fill with inviolable peace, ’Stablish, and keep my ’stablish’d28 heart; In thee may all my wand’rings cease, From thee no more may I depart, Thy utmost goodness call’d to prove, Lov’d with an everlasting love. 25A manuscript draft of this section, on a leaf torn from a larger collection (numbered page 21) is in Special Collections of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Library, in a volume titled “Presidents of the British Wesleyan Conference.” 26“But” instead of “and” in manuscript draft. 27“Is” instead of “be” in manuscript draft. 28“’Stablish’d” changed to “settled” in 4th edn. (1743) and following.