Wesley Corpus

Ogive me such a sense of thy infinite goodness, that I may return to thee all possible love and obedience. I humbly and heartily thank thee for all the favours thou hast bestowed upon me; for creating me after thine own image, for thy daily preserving me by thy good providence, for redeeming me by the death of thy blessed Son, and for the assistance of thy Holy Spirit; for causing me to be born in a Christian country, for blessing me with plentiful means of salvation, with religious parents and friends, and frequent returns of thy ever blessed sacrament. I also thank thee for all thy temporal blessings; for the preservation of me this night; ( ) for my health, strength, food, raiment, and all the comforts and necessaries of life. O may I always delight to “praise thy holy name,” and, above all thy benefits, love thee my great Benefactor. And, O Father of mercies, shut not up thy bowels of compassion towards me, a vile and miserable sinner; despise not the work of thine own hands, the purchase of thy Son's blood. For his sake I most humbly implore forgiveness of all my sins. “Lo, I come now, to do thy will alone;” and am resolved, by thy assistance, to have no longer any choice of my own, but with singleness of heart to obey thy good pleasure: “Father, not my will, but thine be done,” in all my thoughts, words, and actions. O thou all-sufficient God of angels and men, who art above all, and through all, and in all; from whom, by whom, and in whom are all things; “in whom we live, move, and have our being;” may my will be as entirely and continually derived from thine, as my being and happiness are ! Ibelieve, Osovereign Goodness, O mighty Wisdom, that thou dost sweetly order and govern all things, even the most minute, even the most noxious, to thy glory, and the good of those that love thee. I believe, O Father of the families of heaven and earth, that thou so disposest all events, as may best magnify thy goodness to all thy children, especially those whose eyes wait upon thee.