Religion

Mark 12:23: In the resurrection... whose wife shall she be?

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 11 (1871)

Religion

Will carnal thoughts of carnal men
The hidden life of heaven explain?
Who rightly would of heaven conceive
Must all his old ideas leave,
Forget whate'er is done below.
After the flesh no longer know
Children, or Avife, or bosom-friend,
But stripp'd of all, on Christ attend.

The creature in those realms of bliss
Doth only his Creator please;
Man, happy man, no more his own,
Doth greatly live to God alone:
Who father here and mother leaves
And for all creatures one receives.
Her and himself forsakes above.
And cleaves to Christ in endless love.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Mark 12:23: In the resurrection... whose wife shall she be?” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4890/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Mark 12:23: In the resurrection... whose wife shall she be?” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4890/.

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