Wesley Corpus

Page 54 Throughout the universe it reigns Unalterably sure, And while the truth of God remains, The goodness must endure. "Keeping mercy for thousands." Exod. xxxiv. 7. Reserves of unexhausted grace Are treasur'd up in thee, For myriads of the fallen race; For all mankind, and me; The flowing stream continues full, 'Till time its course hath run, And while eternal ages roll, Thy mercy shall flow on. "Forgiving iniquity, and transgression and sin." Exod. xxxiv. 7. Merciful God, long-suffering, kind, To me thy name is shew'd; But sinners most exult to find, Thou art a pardoning God: Our sins in deed, and word, and thought Thou freely dost forgive, For us thou by thy blood hast bought, And died, that I may live. "That will by no means clear the guilty, c." Exod. xxxiv. 7. Yet wilt thou not the guilty clear, If we to sin return: Thy wrath vindictively severe From age to age shall burn; Unless our sinful misery We self-condemn'd bemoan, And find an Advocate in thee Before thy Father's throne. "He was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread nor drink water." Exod. xxxiv. 28. Moses fasted forty days, Nor miss'd his outward food, Nourish'd by his Maker's grace, The partial sight of God: We shall live compleatly blest, When face to face our God we see,