Worldlings in the shadow rest

Verse 1
Worldlings in the shadow rest:
Taught, and tutor’d, Lord, by thee,
Christians bear within their breast
True, substantial courtesy,
Not by art, but nature, prove
All the courtesy of love.

Verse 2
Born (again from heaven) to please,
Who thy softening Spirit know,
Meek and lowly gentleness
They in words and actions shew,
They the polish’d pattern give,
Shew the world how angels live!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Be courteous.”—[1 Pet.] iii. 8. 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 182.
Publishing: Public Domain