From spiritual to sensual good
By nature’s weight we slide,
Till sav’d and perfectly renew’d
In Jesus we abide:
From sensible injoyments then
To spiritual we soar,
And never sink in flesh again,
And think of earth no more.
From spiritual to sensual good
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread.’—[Mark 8,] v. 16.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/574, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 14.
Publishing: Public Domain