Wesley Corpus

HYMN 499. p. m. 1 /^OME, let us ascend, My companion and friend, ^-^ To a taste of the banquet above ; If thy heart be as mine, If for Jesus it pine, Come up into the chariot of love. 2 Who in Jesus confide, We are bold to outride The storms of affliction beneath ; With the prophet we soar To the heavenly shore, And outfly all the arrows of death. 3 By faith we are come To our permanent home : By hope we the rapture improve : By love we still rise, And look down on the skies, For the heaven of heavens is love. 4 Who on earth can conceive How happy we live, In the palace of God, the great King ? What a concert of praise, When our Jesus's grace The whole heavenly company sing! 5 What a rapturous song, When the glorified throng In the spirit of harmony join : Join all the glad choirs, Hearts, voices, and lyres, And the burden is, " Mercy divine ! " For the Society giving Thanks. 467 6 Hallelujah, they cry, To the King of the sky, To the great everlasting I AM ; To the Lamb that was slain, And liveth again, Hallelujah to God and the Lamb ! J" The Lamb on the throne, Lo ! he dwells with his own , And to rivers of pleasure he leads ! With his mercy's full blaze, With the sight of his face, Our beatified spirits he feeds. 8 Our foreheads proclaim His ineffable name ; Our bodies his glory display : A day without night We feast in his sight, And eternity seems as a day ! * HYMN 500. c. m. 1 A LL praise to our redeeming Lord, *~*- Who joins us by his grace, And bids us, each to each restored, Together seek his face. 2 He bids us build each other up ; And, gather* d into one, To our high calling's glorious hope We hand in hand go on. 3 The gift which he on one bestows, We all delight to prove : The grace through every vessel flows, In purest streams of love. 4 Ev'n now we think and speak the same, And cordially agree ; Concentred all, through Jesu's name, In perfect harmony. 468 For the Society Praying. 5 We all partake the joy of one,