Come let us rise with Christ our head

Verse 1
Come, let us rise with Christ our Head,
And seek the things above, (Col. 3:1-2)
By the almighty Spirit led (Rom. 8:5, Rom. 8:14, Gal. 5:25)
And fill’d with faith and love:
Our hearts, detatch’d from all below, (Col. 3:2)
Shoud after Him ascend, (Eph. 2:6)
And only wish the joy to know (Heb. 12:2)
Of our triumphant Friend.

Verse 2
Inthron’d at God’s right hand He sits (Heb. 1:3, Psalm 110:1, Matt. 22:44, Mark 12:36, Heb. 1:13)
Maintainer of our Cause,
Till every vanquish’d foe submits (I Cor. 15:25, Isa. 45:23, Rom. 14:11, Phil. 2:10-11)
To his victorious cross;
Worthy to be exalted thus
The Lamb for sinners slain, (Rev. 5:12)
The Lord our King, who reigns for us,
And shall for ever reign. (Rev. 11:15)

Verse 3
To Him our willing hearts we give,
Who gives us power and peace,
And dead to sin, his members live (Col. 3:3, Rom. 6:11)
The life of righteousness; (Eph. 4:24)
The hidden life of Christ is ours (Col. 3:4)
With Christ conceal’d above,
And tasting the celestial powers (Heb. 6:4-5)
We banquet on his love. (Song of Solomon 2:4)

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘If ye be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above.’—Col. 3:1, &c.” This hymn appears in the ca. 1786 manuscript “MS Miscellaneous Hymns.” 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 1977/556, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 85.
Publishing: Public Domain