Wesley Corpus

And do thy will like those above : Together spread the gospel sound, And scatter peace on all around, And joy, and happiness, and love. True yoke-fellows, by love compell'd, To labour in the gospel field, Our all let us delight to spend, In gathering in thy lambs and sheep ; Assured that thou our souls wilt keep, Wilt keep us faithful to the end. 1 TESU, thou great redeeming Lord, *J The kingdom of thy peace restored For the Society Praying. 489 Let all thy followers perceive, And happy in thy Spirit live ; Retain the grace through thee bestow'd, The favour and the peace of God. 2 Give all thy saints to find in thee The fulness of the Deity; His nature, life^, and mind to prove, In perfect holiness and love : Fountain of grace, thyself make known With God and man for ever one. 3 Still with and in thy people dwell ; Thy gracious plenitude reveal ; Till coming with thy heavenly train, We eye to eye "behold the Man," And share thy majesty divine, And mount our thrones encircling thine. 1 l^XCEPT the Lord conduct the plan, -*-- A The best concerted schemes are vain, And never can succeed ; We spend our wretched strength for nought But if our works in thee be wrought, They shall be blest indeed. 2 Lord, if thou didst thyself inspire Our souls with this intense desire Thy goodness to proclaim, -- Thy glory if we now intend, -- O let our deed begin and end Complete in Jesu's name ! 3 In Jesu's name behold we meet, Far from an evil world retreat, And all its frantic ways ; One only thing resolved to know, And square our useful lives below, By reason and by grace. 4J0 For the Society Praying. 4 Not in the tombs we pine to dwell, Not in the dark monastic cell, By vows and grates confined ; Freely to all ourselves we give, Constraint by Jesu's love to live The servants of mankind. 5 Now, Jesus, now thy love impart, To govern each devoted heart, And fit us for thy will : Deep founded in the truth of grace, Build up thy rising church, and place The city on the hill. 6 O let our faith and love abound ! O let our lives to all around