Wesley Corpus

2 Find in Christ the way of peace, Peace unspeakable, unknown : By his pain he gives you ease, Life by his expiring groan : Rise, exalted by his fall ; Find in Christ your all in all 3 O believe the record true, God to you his Son hath given ! Ye may now be happy too ; Find on earth the life of heaven : " [love. Live the life of heaven above : All the life of glorious 4 This the universal bliss, Bliss for every soul design' d ; God's original promise this, God's great gift to all mankind ; Blest in Christ this moment be ! Blest to all eternity ! 1 XTE simple souls that stray -*■ Far from the path of peace, (That lonely, unfrequented way To life and happiness,) *2o The Pleasantness of Religion* Why will ye folly love, And throng the downward road, And hate the wisdom from above, And mock the sons of God ? 2 Madness and misery Ye count our life beneath ; And nothing great or good can see, Or glorious, in our death : As only born to grieve, Beneath your feet we lie ; And utterly contemn'd we live, And unlamented die. 3 So wretched and obscure, The men whom ye despise, So foolish, impotent, and poor, -- Above your scorn we rise : We, through the Holy Ghost, Can witness better things ; For He, whose blood is all our boast, Hath made us Priests and Kings. 4 Riches unsearchable In Jesu's love we know ; And pleasures, springing from the well Of life, our souls o'erflow ; The Spirit we receive Of wisdom, grace, and power ; And always sorrowful we live, Rejoicing evermore. 5 Angels our servants are, And keep in all our ways ; And in their watchful hands they bear The sacred sons of grace : Unto that heavenly bliss They all our steps attend ; And God himself our Father is, And Jesus is our Friend. The Goodness of God. 2>7 6 With him we walk in white ; We in his image shine ; Our robes are robes of glorious light, Our righteousness divine : On all the kings of earth With pity we look down ; /£*_*, And claim, in virtue of our birth, A never-fading crown. 2. Descrihing the Goodness of God. HYMN 22. c. m.