Wesley Corpus

The General Rules of the Methodist Societies

AuthorJohn Wesley
Typetreatise
Year1743
Passage IDjw-general-rules-004
Words384
Catholic Spirit Means of Grace Repentance
I And make them patient to the End. 3 12 O satisfy their Soul in Drought ; | | ) - Give them thy saving Health to see, - "i 1 And let thy Mercy find them out; b 8 And let thy Mercy reach to me. . 13 Hast Thou the W ork of Grace begun, 5 And bwught them to the Birth in vain ?- | n O let thy Children see the Sun! 85 Let all their Souls be born again! 1 14 Relieve the Souls whose Cross we bear, : For whom. thy (ui ri ring Members mourn ; - & Answer our Faith” s effectu al Prayer: b Bid ev'ry 1 Child be born. 15 Hark how thy Turtle Dove complains, And fee us weep for Siea's Woe ! Pity thy suff ring People's Pain; Avenge us of cur Inbred Foe, 26 Whom Thoukt { dound, O Lord, expel], - And take his Armour all away ; The Man of Sin, the Child of Hell, The Devil in our Nature slay. 17 Him and his Works at once destroy, The Being of all Sin erase, And turn our Mourning into Joy, And cloath us with the Robes of Praise, 18 Then, when our Suff rings all are past, - O let us pure and perfect be, And gain our Calling's Prize at last, For ever sanctified in Thee. fs Rage r 8 th . ana -- * N Food -- E. H OI, D! how good a Thing . It is to dwell in Peace, How pleasing to our King, This Fruit of Righteousness, When Brethren all in One agree; Who knows the Joys of Unity | Where all are sweetly joyn'd, True Followers of the Lamb, The fame in Heart and Mind, And think and speak the same, And all in Love together dwell ; The Comfort rs unspeakable. Where Unity takes place, The joys of Heaven we prove; This is the Gospel-Grace, The Unction from above, The Spirit on all Believers shed, Descending swift from CHRI ST our Head. JESUS, our great High Priest, For Us the Gift receiv'd, For Us, and All the rest, Who have in him believ'd ; F.ven to his Skirts----the meanest name That longs to love the bleeding Lamb. -- -- --