Wesley Corpus

2 Thee to laud in songs divine Angels and archangels join : We with them our voices raise, Echoing thine eternal praise. Additional Hymns. 507 3 Holy, holy, holy Lord, Live by heaven and earth adored ! Full of thee, they ever cry, << Glory be to God Most High ! " 1 OEING of Beings, God of Love ! -U To thee our hearts we raise ; Thy all-sustaining power we prove, And gladly sing thy praise. 2 Thine, only thine, we pant to be ; Our sacrifice receive ; Made, and preserved, and saved by thee, To thee ourselves we give. 3 Heavenward our every wish aspires ; For all thy mercies' store, The sole return thy love requires Is, that we ask for more. 4 For more we ask ; we open then Our hearts to' embrace thy will ; Turn, and beget us, Lord, again, With all thy fulness fill. 5 Come, Holy Ghost, the Saviour's love Shed in our hearts abroad ! So shall we ever live, and move, And be, with Christ in God. HYMN 544. c. m. On the Sabbath. 1 HPHE Lord of Sabbath let us praise, ■*■ In concert with the blest, Who, joyful, in harmonious lays Employ an endless rest. Mo Additional Hymns. Thus, Lord, while we remember Thee, We blest and pious grow ; By hymns of praise we learn to be Triumphant here below. 2 On this glad day a brighter scene Of glory was display'd, By God, the' eternal Word, than when This universe was made. He rises, who mankind has bought With grief and pain extreme : 'Twas great to speak a world from nought ; 'Twas greater to redeem ! On the Death of Christ. 1 r\ THOU eternal Victim, slain ^-J A sacrifice for guilty man, By the eternal Spirit made An offering in the sinner's stead ; Our everlasting Priest art thou, And plead'st thy death for sinners now. 2 Thy offering still continues new ; Thy vesture keeps its bloody hue ; Thou stand'st the ever-slaughter'd Lamb ; Thy priesthood still remains the same ; Thy years, O God, can never fail ; Thy goodness is unchangeable.