Wesley Corpus

^ Thy goodness we proclaim, Which brings us here to meet again, And triumph in thy name : Thy mighty name hath been Our safeguard and our tower ; Hath saved us from the world, and sin, And all the' Accuser's power. 2 Jesus, take all the praise, That still on earth we live, Unspotted in so foul a place, And innocently grieve ! We shall from Sodom flee, When perfected in love ; And haste to better company, Who wait for us above. 3 Awhile in flesh disjoin'd, Our friends that went before We soon in paradise shall find, And meet to part no more. For the Society on Meeting. 4ol In yoii thrice happy seat, Waiting for us they are ; And thou shalt there a husband meet ! And I a parent there ! 4 O ! what a mighty change Shall Jesu's suff'rers know, While o'er the happy plains they range, Incapable of woe ! No ill- requited love Shall there our spirits wound ; No base ingratitude above, No sin in heaven is found. 5 There all our griefs are spent ! There all our sorrows end ! We cannot there the fall lament Of a departed friend, -- A brother dead to God, By sin, alas ! undone : -- No father there, in passion loud, Cries, " O my son, my son ! " 6 No slightest touch of pain, Nor sorrow's least alloy, Can violate our rest, or stain Our purity of joy : In that eternal day No clouds nor tempests rise : There gushing tears are wiped away For ever from our eyes. JESU, to thee our hearts we lift, (May all our hearts with love o'erflow !) With thanks for thy continued gift, -- That still thy precious name we know, Retain our sense of sin forgiven, And wait for all our inward heaven. 4o'2 For (lie Society on Meeting. :? What mighty troubles hast thou shown Thy feeble, tempted followers here! We have through lire and water gone. But saw thee on the floods appear, But felt thee present in the flame, And shouted our Deliverer's name. 3 When stronger souls their faith forsook, And, lull'd in worldly, hellish peace, Leap'd desperate from their Guardian -rock, And headlong plunged in sin's abyss ; Thy strength was in our weakness shown, And still it guards and keeps thine own.