The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1869) Book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Nor ever from Thy footsteps move, But more than conquer in Thy love. ii Be it according to Thy will; Set my imprison'd spirit free, The counsel of Thy grace fulfil; Into the glorious liberty My spirit, soul, and flesh restore, And I shall never grieve Thee more. HYMN X. Jesus Christ, the Saviour of all men. 1 See, sinners, in the gospel glass, The Friend and Saviour of mankind ! Not one of all the' apostate race But may in Him salvation find : His thoughts, and words, and actions prove? His life and death?that God is love. 2 Behold the Lamb of God, who bears The sins of all the world away! A servant's form He meekly wears, He sojourns in an house of clay ; His glory is no longer seen, But God with God is man with men. 3 See where the God incarnate stands, And calls His wandering creatures home! He all day long spreads out His hands,? " Come, weary souls, to Jesus come! Ye all may hide you in My breast; Believe, and I will give you rest. Inserted in the second number of the " Arminian Magazine." 4 " Ah ! do not of My goodness doubt, My saving grace for all is free; I will in nowise cast him out Who comes, a sinner, unto Me; I can to none Myself deny ; Why, sinners, will ye perish, why ?" 5 (The mournful cause let Jesus tell) " They will not come to Me, and live : I did not force them to rebel, Or call when I had nought to give, Invite them to believe a lie, Or any soul of man pass by". 6 Sinners, believe the gospel word; Jesus is come, your souls to save ! Jesus is come, your common Lord! Pardon ye all in Him may have; May now be saved, whoever will; This Man receiveth sinners still. 7 See where the lame, the halt, the blind, The deaf, the dumb, the sick, the poor, Flock to the Friend of human kind...Read More