As members of that heavenly man

As members of that heavenly Man
Christians indeed are from above,
Not of this world of shadows vain,
We our celestial country love:
Let worldlings love the things below,
A nobler good to us is given,
That all our spotless lives may show
The spirit and the taste of heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Ye are from beneath, I am from above: ye are of this world, I am not of this world.’—[John 8,] v. 23." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 423.
Publishing: Public Domain