Wesley Corpus

On no support but thine : Our everlasting Comforter! We cannot want, if thou art here. 4 Still let us, gracious Lord, Sit loose to all below ; And to thy love restored, No other portion know ; Stand fast in glorious liberty, And live and die wrapt up in thee ! BLEST be the dear uniting love, That will not let us part : Our bodies may far off remove,-- We still are one in heart. For the Society at Parting. 497 2 Join'd in one spirit to our Head, Where he appoints we go ; And still in Jesu's footsteps tread, And show his praise below. 3 O may we ever walk in him, And nothing know beside ; Nothing desire, nothing esteem, But Jesus Crucified. 4 Closer and closer let us cleave To his beloved embrace ; Expect his fulness to receive, And grace to answer grace. 5 Partakers of the Saviour's grace, The same in mind and heart, Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place. Nor life, nor death can part. 6 But let us hasten to the day, Which shall our flesh restore, When death shall all be done away, And bodies part no more ! HYMN 535. d. s. m. 1 A ND let our bodies part, -l~V To different climes repair, -- Inseparably join'd in heart The friends of Jesus are. Jesus, the Corner-stone, Did first our hearts unite, And still he keeps our spirits one, Who walk with him in white. 2 O let us still proceed In Jesu's work below ; And, following our triumphant Head, To farther conquests go ! 2 1 49o For the Society at Parting. The vineyard of their Lord Before his labourers lies ; And, lo ! we see the vast reward Which waits us in the skies. 3 O let our heart and mind Continually ascend, That haven of repose to find Where all our labours end ; Where all our toils are o'er, Our suffering and our pain : -- Who meet on that eternal shore, Shall never part again. 4 O happy, happy place, Where saints and angels meet ! There we shall see each other's face, And all our brethren greet. The Church of the first-born, We shall with them be blest, And, crown'd with endless joy, return To our eternal rest. 5 With joy we shall behold,