Wesley Corpus

To guard and feed the chosen race, In Israel's camp appear. 3 Throughout the desert way, Conduct us by thy light ; Be thou a cooling cloud by day, A cheering fire by night. 4 Our fainting souls sustain With blessings from above ; And ever on thy people rain The manna of thy love. HYMN 618. s. m. " This is He that came not by water only, hut by water and blood" 1 HP HIS, this is He that came -^ By water and by blood ! Jesus is our atoning Lamb, Our sanctifying God. %2 See from his wounded side The mingled current How ! The water and the blood applied Shall wash us white as snow. 3 The water cannot cleanse, Before the blood we feel, To purge the guilt of all our sins. And our forgiveness seal.. Sufferings, 8fc, of Christ. Ql)J 4 But both, in Jesus join, Who speaks our sins forgiven, And gives the purity divine That makes us meet for heaven. HYMN 619. l. m. " For the Law had a shadow of good things. ." 1 (^\ THOU, whose offering on the tree ^^ The legal offerings all foreshow'd, Borrow'd their whole effect from thee, And drew their virtue from thy blood : 2 The blood of goats, and bullocks slain, Could never for one sin atone : To purge the guilty offerer's stain, Thine was the work, and thine alone. 3 Vain in themselves their duties were, Their services could never please, Till join'd with thine, and made to share The merits of thy righteousness. 4 Forward they cast a faithful look On thy approaching sacrifice ; And thence their pleasing savour took, And rose accepted in the skies. 5 Those feeble types, and shadows old, Are all in thee, the Truth, fulfill' d : We in thy sacrifice behold The substance of those rites reveal'd. 6 Thy meritorious sufferings past, We see by faith to us brought back ; And on thy grand oblation cast, Its saving benefits partake. HYMN 620. c. m. Christ the Foundation. 1 'FYEHOLD the sure foundation-stone -*■} Which God in Sion lays, •'/*■) In carnation , To build our heavenly hopes upon, And his eternal praise. 2 Chosen of God, to sinners dear, We now adore thy name ; We trust our whole salvation here, Nor can we suffer shame.