The Christian apostolic man

Verse 1
The Christian, Apostolic man,
Loos’d from the ties of flesh and blood,
Superior to desire and pain,
Labours, and speaks, and lives for God:
He lives his pleasure to fulfil:
And who their heavenly Father own,
And faithfully perform his will,
He knows, and cleaves to them alone.

Verse 2
His passions chang’d and sanctified
With more than nature’s warmth embrace
The precious souls, to his allied
By all the tenderest ties of grace:
Relations all in one he proves
To saints begot by Jesus’ word,
And with divine affection loves
The kindred of his dearest Lord.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.’—[Matt. 12,] v. 50.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 266.
Publishing: Public Domain