Wesley Corpus

‘2. Of pride throughout my life past; inasmuch as I thought I had what I find I had not. ‘3. Of gross irrecollection; inasmuch as in a storm I cry to God every moment; in a calm, not. ‘Lord, save, or I perish! Save me, -- ‘(1) By such a faith in Thee and in Thy Christ as implies trust, confidence, peace in life and in death. ‘(2) By such humility as may fill my heart, from this hour for ever, with a piercing, uninterrupted sense, Nihil est quod hactenus feci [ Kempis's Imitation, I. xix. I: 'What I have been hitherto doing amounts to nothing.']; having evidently built without a foundation. ‘(3) By such a recollection that I may cry to Thee every moment, but more especially when all is calm (if it should so please Thee), "Give me faith, or I die ! Give me a lowly spirit, otherwise mihi non sit suave vivere” [Terence's Heaut. III. i. 73: ~ ‘May life itself no longer be pleasant to me.’] Amen! Come, Lord Jesus! e ad, s .’ [Luke xviii. 39: 'Son of David, have mercy upon me.']