The members must their Head pursue

Verse 1
The members must their Head pursue,
One with Him they suffer too,
Or barren still abide:
Dies every consecrated grain,
Dies every re-begotten man
With Jesus crucified.

Verse 2
As banish’d long from human thought,
Lord, thy follower is forgot,
Is buried out of sight,
Till Thou his dear Redeemer come,
And call his soul out of thy tomb,
And bring him forth to light.

Verse 3
Who now participates thy death,
Shall thy living Spirit breathe,
Bring forth the fruits of grace,
Thy gifts abundantly improve,
Attaining in the fear of love
The perfect holiness.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground (Gr. earth) and die, it abideth alone, but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.’—John 12, v. 24." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 254.
Publishing: Public Domain