Wesley Corpus

Christ Our Righteousness. [1 Corinthians 1:30] Source: Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), Part I Author: Charles Wesley (attributed) --- Jesus, of all my hopes the ground, Thro’ thee thy name I know, The only name where health is found, Whence life and blessings flow. ’Tis now by faith’s enlighten’d eye I see thy strange design, See the God-man come down to die, That God may all be mine! Thou art the truth: I now receive Thy unction from above, Divinely taught in thee believe, And learn the lore of love. Still with thy grace anoint my eyes, Throughout my darkness shine; O make me to salvation wise,-- My all, be ever mine! Christ Our Righteousness. [1 Corinthians i. 30.] Jesu, thou art my righteousness, For all my sins were thine: Thy death hath bought of God my peace, Thy life hath made him mine. Spotless, and just in thee I am; I feel my sins forgiven; I taste salvation in thy name, And antedate my heaven. Forever here my rest shall be, Close to thy bleeding side; This all my hope, and all my plea, For me the Saviour died! My dying Saviour, and my God, Fountain for guilt, and sin, Sprinkle me ever in thy blood, And cleanse, and keep me clean. Wash me, and make me thus thine own; Wash me, and mine thou art; Wash me, (but not my feet alone) My hands, my head, my heart. Th’ atonement of thy blood apply, Till faith to sight improve, Till hope shall in fruition die, And all my soul be love.