What is that meetness for the skies?
Hard labouring in the vale below,
I ask, What is my calling’s prize?
And all within me groans to know:
Who shall that holiness explain?
Adam, descended from above,
Answer by forming me again,
By perfecting my soul in love.
What is that meetness for the skies
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Who hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance.”—Col. i. 12. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 82.
Publishing: Public Domain