Wesley Corpus

Then cut short our days of mourning, Then our ready souls receive, Call us up with songs returning In thy blissful sight to live, Live, and praise thee on the throne, God in Three for ever One. Who God in Christ discover By his own Spirit's power, And love our heavenly lover, And One in Three adore, The secret hid from ages, Having our Saviour's mind, We in the sacred pages And we alone can find. Assenting to the letter A sinner nothing gains: It cannot free the debtor, Or break the prisoner's chains; The truest, soundest notion Can never guilt remove, Or give that heart-devotion Which flows from humble love. Thou God who sin forgivest, To thee if sinners turn, And in thine arms receivest When after thee we mourn; Thy gospel's controversy Against the men maintain Who spurn thy pard'ning mercy, And bear thy name in vain. The world of misbelievers Thou only canst convince, Orthodox self-deceivers Shut up in all their sins: Page 129 Darkness for light mistaking And light for darkness, they O'erlook the one thing lacking, Or scornfully gainsay. Our faith, imagination, Our hope they count a lye, The present, sure salvation, The heart-felt love deny; The witness of that Spirit, The antepast, and seal, And his imputed merit Who saves us all from hell. Their shadowy faith embracing, A creature of their own, Thee with their sins confessing They bow to Three in One; Assur'd they only know thee, With sin they will not part, Or render that they owe thee, An undivided heart. Stir up thy saving power, Mysterious One in Three, Nor let the pit devour The souls redeem'd by thee: Convince of their delusion The enemies of grace, And clothe them with confusion, That they may seek thy face. Beneath their burthen groaning When after thee they cry, Their unbelief bemoaning As at the point to die, From guilt and condemnation Thy penitents to clear, The God of their salvation, The Tri-une God appear. Page 130 Tri-une God of pard'ning love, Thy divine economy All our thankful hearts approve, Thee adore in Persons Three; Each our cancel'd sin reveals, Each confirms the babes forgiven, Each the heirs of glory seals, Each conducts our souls to heaven.