Wesley Corpus

Let us patiently endure, And still our wants declare; All the promises are sure To persevering prayer; Till we see the perfect day, And each wakes up a sinless saint, Pray we, c. Pray we on, when all-renew'd, And perfected in love, Till we see the Saviour-God Descending from above, Page 21 14Line changed to "There we need not, cannot pray" in HSP (1749). 15This hymn included later in HSP (1749), 2:101-2. All his heavenly charms survey Beyond what angel-minds can paint, Pray we, c. Pray we in the realms of light Till we behold his face, Faith shall there be lost in sight, And prayer in endless praise; Blest thro' one eternal day Possest of all that God can grant There we cannot, need not, pray,14 For heaven is all we want. A Prayer for Believers in Temptation.15 Meek patient Son of God and man, With us in our temptation stay, Our fainting feeble minds sustain, And keep throughout the evil day (The evil day of doubts and fears, And fightings,) till thy face appears. We have not an high-priest in thee Who cannot our afflictions feel, The tempted soul's infirmity With kind concern affects thee still, Touch'd with our every grief thou art, And bleeds for us thy pitying heart. For us by men and fiends distrest, For us by various passions torn, Who toil to enter into rest, Who for thy second coming mourn, And fill thy sacred sorrows up, And drink thine agonizing cup. Companions to the Man of Woe, O let us still with thee abide, Tempted alas! To let thee go, And start from the command aside, By every wind of doctrine driven To seek a broader way to heaven. Page 22 16"Dreadful cross" changed to "killing word" in HSP (1749). 17"Endure" placed in italics in HSP (1749). 18"Fancied" placed in italics in HSP (1749). 19Ori., "sleep"; a misprint, corrected in 2nd edn. (1747), but recurs in 3rd edn. (1748). Yes, Lord, with deepest shame we own Our weariness of all thy ways, Our haste to throw thy burthen down, Nor bear the hidings of thy face, Nor wait till thou create us new, And give the crown to conquest due.