Wesley Corpus

Ye trembling slaves of sin, The Rock of your salvation, struck And cleft to take you in : To shelter the distrest, He did the cross endure , Enter into the clefts, and rest In Jesu's wounds secure. 3 Jesus, to thee we fly, From the devouring sword ; Our city of defence is nigh ; Our help is in the Lord. -- Or, if the scourge o'erflow, And laugh at innocence, Thine everlasting arms, we know, Shall be our souls' defence. 4 We in thy word believe, And on thy promise stay ; Our life, which still to thee we give, Shall be to us a prey : Our life with thee we hide, Above the furious blast, And shelter'd in thy wounds abide, Till all the storms are past. ] For Believers Interceding. 4:2 J 5 Believing against hope, We hang upon thy grace, Through every lowering cloud look up, And wait for happy days ; The days when all shall know Their sins in Christ forgiven, And walk awhile with God below, And then fly up to heaven. HYMN 454. l. m. Against Lukewarmness. -- Rev. iii. 14 -- 19. GOD of unspotted purity, Us and our works cans ist thou behold ! Justly we are abhorr'd by thee, For we are neither hot nor cold. 2 We call thee Lord, thy faith profess, But do not from our hearts obey ; In soft Laodicean ease We sleep our useless lives away. 3 We live in pleasure, and are dead, In search of fame and wealth we live : Commanded in thy steps to tread, We seek sometimes, but never strive. 4 A lifeless form we still retain ; Of this we make our empty boast, Nor know the name we take in vain ; The power of godliness is lost. 5 How long, great God, have we appear'd Abominable in thy sight ! Better that we had never heard Thy word, or seen the gospel light. 6 Better that we had never known The way to heaven through saving grace Than basely in our lives disown, And slight and mock thee to thy face. 4^0 J?or Believers Interceding. 7 Thou rather would'st that we were cold Than seem to serve thee without zeal ; Less guilty if, with those of old, We worshipp'd Thor and Woden still. 8 Less grievous wili the judgment-dav