Wesley Corpus

2 But if thou pronounce the word That forms our souls again, Love and harmony restored Throughout our earth shall reign : When thy wondrous love they feel, The human savages are tame ; Ravenous wolves and leopards dwell And stable with the lamb. 3 O that now, with pardon blest, We each might each embrace ; Quietly together rest, And feed upon thy grace ; Like our sinless parents live : Great Shepherd ! make thy goodness known ; All into thy fold receive, And keep us ever one. HYMN 449. 7's8f6's 1 TTAPPY day of union sweet ! -1 J- O when shall it appear! When shall all thy people meet In amity sincere ! Tear each other's flesh no more, But kindly think and speak the same ; All express the meekening power And spirit of the Lamb ! For Believers Interceding ■ 4^ J Visit us, bright Morning Star, And bring the perfect day ! Urged by faith's incessant prayer, No longer, Lord, delay : Now destroy the envious root ; The ground of nature's feuds remove ; Fill the earth with golden fruit, With ripe, millennial love. HYMN 450. s. m. For the Jews. 1 1V/TESSIAH, full of grace, JLtX Redeem'd by thee, we plead The promise made to Abraham's race, To souls for ages dead. 2 Their bones, as quite dried up, Throughout the vale appear : Cut off and lost their last faint hope To see thy kingdom here. .*> Open their graves, and bring The outcasts forth, to own Thou art their Lord, their God, their King, Their true Anointed One. 4 To save the race forlorn, Thy glorious arm display ! And show the world a nation born, A nation in a day ! f^ATHER of faithful Abraham, hear *- Our earnest suit for Abraham's seed ! Justly they claim the softest prayer From us, adopted in their stead, Who mercy through their fall obtain, And Christ by their rejection gain. 422 For Believers Interceding. 2 Outcasts from thee, and scatter'd wide Through every nation under heaven, Blaspheming whom they crucified, Unsaved, unpitied, unforgiven, Branded like Cain, they hear their load, Ahhorr'd of men, and cursed of God. 3 But hast thou finally forsook, For ever cast thy own away ? Wilt thou not hid the murd'rers look