Wesley Corpus

God of all power, and truth and love, I act my faith on thee, Expect thy promises to prove Accomplish'd all in me. In hope believing against hope Thy faithfulness I plead, Assur'd that thou shalt lift me up, And make me free indeed. Thou shalt on me thy Spirit pour, And make the sinner clean, In confidence I wait the hour When I shall cease from sin. I trust, that to the life divine Thou wilt my soul restore, And I shall in thine image shine, And I shall sin no more. Though Satan all thy truths deny, He shall no more deceive, I cannot give my God the lie, For I shall surely live. Page 230 Though men blaspheme the liberty, The power they never knew, Let every man a liar be, So God alone be true. Though nature fail, and flesh and blood Would from the promise start, God shall his word accomplish, God Is greater than my heart. Thro' unbelief I stagger not, Though now my soul is dead, Quicken'd in Christ, from every thought Of sin I shall be freed. I shall be perfected in love For thou hast spoke the word, The servant cannot be above, But shall be as his Lord. The glory of thy truth and grace To thee, O God, I give, The vilest of the sinful race I without sin shall live. "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." Matthew vi. 10. Jesu, the life, the truth, the way, In whom I now believe, As taught by thee, in faith I pray, Expecting to receive. Thy will by me on earth be done, As by the quires above, Who always see thee on thy throne, And glory in thy love. Page 231 I ask in confidence the grace, That I may do thy will, As angels who behold thy face, And all thy words fulfil. Surely I shall, the sinner I, Shall serve thee without fear; My heart no longer gives the lie To my deceitful prayer. Thee I shall serve without constraint, Shall every moment please: Those blessed spirits never faint, Nor from thy service cease. When thou the work of faith hast wrought, I shall be pure within, Nor sin in deed, or word, or thought; For angels never sin.