Wesley Corpus

As favours from my kindest Lord, My deaths I joyfully sustain, Indulg'd t' enhance my great reward, When coming with his saints to reign, I see, I meet the crucified, I sit triumphant at his side! "Christ in you, the hope of glory." Col. i. 27. The mystery so long unknown Is manifest in Christ alone: The fulness of the deity Resides eternally in thee: Jesus, to me the secret tell, Thyself, the gift unspeakable, The hope of heavenly bliss impart, The glorious earnest in my heart. "If ye be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth." Col. iii. 1, 2. Ye faithful souls, who Jesus know, If ris'n indeed with him ye are, Superior to the joys below, His resurrection's power declare, Your faith by holy tempers prove, By actions shew your sins forgiven, And seek the glorious things above, And follow Christ your head to heaven. 62John Wesley underlined "sacred pains" in line 2 and "Allotted misery" in line 3 in his personal copy, drawing an exclamation point in the margin after line 3. 63John Wesley underlined "must" in this line in his personal copy, drawing an exclamation point in the margin. Page 321 There your exalted Saviour see Seated at God's right-hand again, In all his Father's majesty, In everlasting pomp to reign: To him continually aspire, Contending for your native place, And emulate the angel-quire, And only live to love and praise. "For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." Col. iii. 3, 4. For who by faith your Lord receive, Ye nothing seek or want beside, Dead to the world and sin ye live, Your creature-love is crucified: Your real life with Christ conceal'd Deep in the Father's bosom lies, And glorious as your head reveal'd, Ye soon shall meet him in the skies. "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, c." Col. iii. 5.