A body natural, by food
And sleep sustain’d, to death I give, (I Cor. 15:42-44)
A body spiritual, endued
With nobler qualities, receive, (I Cor. 15:44, Phil. 3:21)
A permanent, etherial frame,
From all material dregs refin’d, (I Cor. 15:50, I Cor. 15:53, II Cor. 5:2-4)
Compos’d of pure angelic flame,
And meet for mine eternal mind. (II Cor. 5:1)
A body natural, by food
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.”—[1 Cor.] xv. 44. 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 39.
Publishing: Public Domain