Wesley Corpus

Page 47 Thy comforts, gifts, and graces My largest thoughts transcend, And challenge all my praises, When faith in sight shall end. "What man knoweth the things of a man, save the SPIRIT of a man which is IN HIM? EVEN so the things of GOD knoweth none but the SPIRIT OF GOD." 1 Cor. ii. 11. The things and purposes of man Are seen and understood by none; None, none without him can explain His secret thoughts and mind unknown: The spirit which in the man doth dwell, Which is the man, alone can tell. The things invisible, divine, Search'd out by none but God can be: Too short or man's or angel's line To sound the depths of deity: The Spirit which in our God doth dwell, Which is our God, alone can tell. None of a different nature can A far superior nature know: Incomprehensible to man Is God, unless himself he show, Unless his heavenly Spirit impart His light to man's infernal heart. Thou co-essential Spirit, shine, The things of God in us reveal: The things of God are only thine, Jehovah indivisible, God with the Father and the Son, In perfect Unity, come down. Page 48 Save us for thy own nature's sake, And teach by thy anointing grace, Possession of thy creature take, We then the mind of Christ possess, We have the true divinity, The whole of God reveal'd in thee. "The THINGS OF GOD knoweth no man." 1 Cor. ii. 11. "But the natural man receiveth not the THINGS OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD." Ibid., ver. 14. 'Twixt God and his own Spirit we No difference in the scriptures see, In Personality alone Distinct, in mind and nature One: The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Ador'd by his celestial host, As taught by his unerring word, We worship, One Almighty Lord. But God the Spirit's things are known By reason's feeble light to none, Though foolish man would comprehend What must his nature's powers transcend; 'Till God an understanding give, He cannot savingly believe His God, or spiritually see The Three in One, and One in Three. "Thou shalt not TEMPT the LORD thy GOD." Deut. vi. 16, and Matt. iv. 7. "How is it that ye have agreed to TEMPT the SPIRIT of the LORD?" Acts v. 9.