Wesley Corpus

The Goodness of God. OO 1 OEE, sinners, in the gospel glass, ^ The Friend and Saviour of mankind ! Not one of all the' apostate race But may in him salvation find ! His thoughts, and words, and actions prove, -- His life and death, -- that God is love ! 2 Behold the Lamh of God, who bears The sins of all the world away ! A servant's form he meekly wears, He sojourns in a house of clay ! His glory is no longer seen, But God with God is man with men. 3 See where the God incarnate stands, And calls his wand'ring creatures home : He all day long spreads out his hands ; " Come, weary souls, to Jesus come ! Ye all may hide you in my breast ; Believe, and I will give you rest. 4 " Ah ! do not of my goodness doubt ; My saving grace for all is free ; I will in no wise cast him out That comes a sinner unto me ; I can to none myself deny ; Why, sinners, will ye perish, why?" 1 CINNERS, believe the gospel word : ^ Jesus is come your souls to save! Jesus is come, your common Lord ; Pardon ye all through him may have ; May now be saved, whoever will : This man receiveth sinners still. 2 See where the lame, the halt, the blind, The deaf, the dumb, the sick, the poor, Flock to the Friend of human kind, And freely all accept their cure : '^ The Goodness of God. To whom did he his help deny? Whom, in his days of flesh, pass by? 3 Did not his word the fiends expel, The lepers cleanse, and raise the dead ? Did he not all their sickness heal, And satisfy their every need? Did he reject his helpless clay, Or send them sorrowful away ? 4 Nay, but his bowels yearn'd to see The people hungry, scatter'd, faint ; Nay, but he utter'd over thee, Jerusalem, a true complaint ; Jerusalem, who shedd'st his blood, That, with his tears, for thee hath flow'd. 1 V\70ULD Jesus have the sinner die?