Wesley Corpus

The love of all beneath, We find within our hearts, and dare The pointless darts of death. Stronger than death and hell, The mystic power we prove ; And, conquerors of the world, we dwell In heaven, who dwell in Love. 4 Wre by his Spirit prove And know the things of God, The things which freely of his love He hath on us bestow'd : His Spirit to us he gave, And dwells in us, we know : The witness in ourselves we have, And all its fruits we show. 5 The meek and lowly heart That in our Saviour was, To us his Spirit doth impart, And signs us with his cross : Our nature 's turn'd, our mind Transform'd in all its powers ; And both the Witnesses are join'd, The Spirit of God with ours. 6 Wrhate'er our pardoning Lord Commands, we gladly do ; And, guided by his sacred Word, We all his steps pursue : Describing Inward Religion. «^7 His glory our design, We live our God to please ; And rise, with filial fear divine, To perfect holiness. * HYMN 97. 8'* §• &s. 1 r I ^HOU great mysterious God unknown, -*- Whose love hath gently led me on, Even from my infant days ; Mine inmost soul expose to view, And tell me, if I ever knew Thy justifying grace. 2 If I have only known thy fear, And follow'd, with a heart sincere, Thy drawings from above ; Now, now the further grace bestow, And let my sprinkled conscience know Thy sweet forgiving love. 3 Short of thy love I would not stop, A stranger to the gospel hope, The sense of sin forgiven ; I would not, Lord, my soul deceive, Without the inward witness live, That antepast of heaven. 4 If now the witness were in me, Would he not testify of thee In Jesus reconciled ? And should I not with faith draw nigh, And boldly, Abba, Father, cry, And know myself thy child ? 5 Whate'er obstructs thy pardoning love, -- Or sin, or righteousness,-- remove, Thy glory to display ; Mine heart of unbelief convince, And now absolve me from my sins, And take them all away.