Wesley Corpus

Romans 7:24, 25 Source: Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), Part I Author: Charles Wesley (attributed) --- Let me thy righteous doom applaud, Thine everlasting truth declare, And vindicate the ways of God, And glorify thy justice there! Let me--I know not how to pray; My anguish cannot be exprest: Jesu, thou seest what I would say; O let thy bowels speak the rest! Romans vii. 24, 25.29 Father of mercies, God of love, Whose bowels of compassion move, To sinful worms, whose arms embrace, And strain to hold a struggling race! With me still let thy Spirit strive, Have patience, till my heart I give; Assist me to obey thy call, And give me power to pay thee all. If now my nature’s weight I feel, And groan to render up my will, Not long the kind relentings stay, The morning vapour fleets away. 29This hymn appeared first in the 2nd edn. of HSP (1739), 58-59; it was then moved to this collection.