Wesley Corpus

A Collection of Hymns (1780)

AuthorCharles Wesley
Typehymn-collection
Year1780
Passage IDcw-hymns-1780-209
Words376
Sourcehttps://www.ccel.org/ccel/wesley/hymn.html
Sanctifying Grace
I now exult to see ; My hope is full (O glorious hope !) Of immortality. 5 He visits now the house of clay ; He shakes his future home ; O would'st thou, Lord, on this glad day, Into thy temple come ! 6 With me I know, I feel, thou art ; But this cannot suffice, Unless thou plantest in my heart A constant paradise. 7 My earth thou waterest from on high ; But make it all a pool : Spring up, O Well, I ever cry, Spring up within my soul ! 8 Come, O my God, thyself reveal, Fill all this mighty void ; Thou only canst my spirit fill : Come, O my God, my God ! 9 Fulfil, fulfil my large desires, Large as infinity ; Give, give me all my soul requires, All, all that is in thee! HYMN 406. c. m. 1 ^IIITHAT is our calling's glorious hope, » ^ But inward holiness ? For this to Jesus I look up, I calmly wait for this. 2 I wait, till he shall touch me clean, Shall life and power impart, Seeking for full Redemption. 3o7 Give me the faith that casts out sin, And purines the heart. 3 This is the dear redeeming grace, For every sinner free ; Surely it shall on me take place, The chief of sinners, me. 4 From all iniquity, from all, He shall my soul redeem ; In Jesus I believe, and shall Believe myself to him. 5 When Jesus makes my heart his home, My sin shall all depart ; And, lo ! he saith, " I quickly come, To fill and rule thy heart ! " 6 Be it according to thy word ! Redeem me from all sin : My heart would now receive thee, Lord ; Come in, my Lord, come in ! HYMN 407. 7'sSf6's. Dent, xxxiii. 26 -- 29. 1 INTONE is like Jeshurun's God, ■*-^l So great, so strong, so high : Lo ! he spreads his wings abroad, He rides upon the sky : Israel is his first-born son : God, the' Almighty God, is thine ; See him to thy help come down, The excellence divine. 2 Thee the great Jehovah deigns