Wesley Corpus

On the Admission of Any Person into the Society Source: Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), Part I Author: Charles Wesley (attributed) --- Fully thy71 quick’ning Sp’rit impart, Thou who hast all our sins forgiven; O form the Saviour in my heart; Seal of thy love, and pledge of heaven. For ever be his name imprest Both on my hand, and on my breast. Thine is whate’er we are: thy grace In Christ created us anew, To sing thy never-ceasing praise, Thy unexhausted love to shew; And arm’d with thy great Spirit’s aid, Blameless in all thy paths to tread. Yea, Father, ours thro’ him thou art, For so is thy eternal will! O live, move, reign within my heart, My soul with all thy fulness fill: My heart, my all I yield to thee: Jesus be all in all to me! On the Admission of Any Person into the Society. Brother in Christ, and well-belov’d, To Jesus, and his servants dear, Enter, and shew thyself approv’d, Enter, and find that God is here! 71Charles Wesley changes “thy” to “the” in All in All (1761). ’Scap’d from the world, redeem’d from sin, By fiends pursued, by men abhor’d, Come in, poor fugitive, come in, And share the portion of thy Lord. Welcome from earth!--Lo! The right-hand Of fellowship to thee we give; With open arms, and hearts we stand, And thee in Jesu’s name receive! Say, is thy heart resolv’d as ours? Then let it burn with sacred love; Then let it taste the heavenly powers, Partaker of the joys above. Jesu, attend! Thyself reveal! Are we not met in thy great name? Thee in the midst we wait to feel, We wait to catch the spreading flame. Thou God, that answerest by fire, The Spirit of burning now impart, And let the flames of pure desire Rise from the altar of our heart. Truly our fellowship below With thee, and with thy Father is, In thee eternal life we know, And heaven’s unutterable bliss.