The saints who die of Christ possessed

Verse 1
The saints who die of Christ possest,
Enter into immediate rest;
For them no farther test remains
Of purging fires and torturing pains:
Who trusting in their Lord depart,
Cleans’d from all sin, and pure in heart,
The bliss unmixt, the glorious prize,
They find with Christ in paradise.

Verse 2
Close-follow’d by their works they go,
Their Master’s purchas’d joy to know;
Their works enhance the bliss prepar’d,
And each hath its distinct reward:
Yet glorified by grace alone
They cast their crowns before the throne,
And fill the ecchoing courts above
With praises of redeeming love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “They rest from their labours, and their works do follow them.”—[Rev.] xiv. 13. 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 236.
Publishing: Public Domain