The heavenly Man, The God we adore

Verse 1
The heavenly Man, The God we adore
Is come with his fan, To winnow his floor:
The first separation He makes by his word;
The heirs of salvation Acknowledge their Lord.

Verse 2
His church is the floor, His saints are the wheat;
Till sinless and pure, For paradise meet,
He purges and sifts them, He chastens and tries,
And finally lifts them To thrones in the skies.

Verse 3
Then, then his full ire On sinners is come,
Unquenchable fire The chaff shall consume,
Jehovah shall sever, And send them to dwell
Forever and ever Tormented in hell.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, &c.’—[Luke 3,] v. 17.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 128.
Publishing: Public Domain