Wesley Corpus

Page 92 So shall my pure obedience prove All things are possible to love. "Thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children." Deut. vi. 7. Father, instruct my docile heart, Apt to instruct I then shall be, I then shall all thy words impart, And teach (as taught myself by thee) My children in their earliest days, To know, and live the life of grace. "Thou shall talk of them, when thou sittest in thy house." Deut. vi. 7. When quiet in my house I sit, Thy book be my companion still, My joy thy sayings to repeat, Talk o'er the records of thy will, And search the oracles divine, 'Till every heart-felt word is mine. "And when thou walkest by the way." Deut. vi. 7. O might the gracious words divine Subject of all my converse be, So would the Lord his follower join, And walk, and talk himself with me, So would my heart his presence prove, And burn with everlasting love. "And when thou liest down." Deut. vi. 7. Oft as I lay me down to rest, O may the reconciling word Sweetly compose my weary breast, While on the bosom of my Lord I sink in blissful dreams away, And visions of eternal day.