Wesley Corpus

Come, thou eternal Spirit of God, God over all confest, Diffuse thy heavenly love abroad In a poor sinner's breast: Then shall I constantly maintain That thou the highest art, When Jesus is conceiv'd again In my believing heart. "Mine eyes have seen the LORD of HOSTS.... Also I heard the voice of the LORD saying, Go and tell this people, c." Isa. vi. 5-8. "Well SPAKE THE HOLY GHOST by Esaias the prophet, saying, Go unto this, c." Acts xxviii. 26, 27. What by the Lord of hosts was said, Was by the Holy Ghost declar'd: In majesty supreme array'd The true Jehovah we regard, And absolute divinity Ascribe, eternal Spirit, to thee. We that amidst a people dwell Of harden'd hearts, and lips unclean, Who see, and hear, yet will not feel, Or know that blasphemy is sin, But still thy deity3 deny, And speak against the Lord most high. 3Ori., "dei y"; a misprint. Page 55 Their eyes against the light they close, Their ears they stop against the word, Their own felicity oppose Opposing thee th' Almighty Lord, The Holy Ghost came down from heaven To certify their sins forgiven. The Spirit of an healthful mind Freely they might in thee receive, The cure of all their evils find; But will not own their God and live, 'Till in their sins they die unheal'd, And find their sure damnation seal'd. "There is none GOOD but ONE, that is GOD." Matt. xix. 17. For One all-perfect God we plead, One only God is good indeed; Good with a goodness of his own, There is, there can be only One, The God who built both earth and sky, The Lord of hosts, the Lord most high. But we thy mind have understood Declaring that "thy Spirit is good:" The sovereign Lord of hosts is he, Father, in unity with thee, In unity with Christ thy Son, The Holy Ghost is God alone. Good incommunicated, pure, Which must eternally endure, Essential, absolute, divine, Spirit of holiness, is thine: Goodness itself, we know, thou art, Reveal'd with Jesus to our heart. Ps. cxliii. 10. "Thy Spirit is good" (Heb., "goodness"). Page 56 "The Spirit OF God." Matt. iii. 16.