Who make to heaven your bold appeal

Verse 1
Who make to heaven your bold appeal,
Most forward to prejudge your foes,
The thunder of th’ Almighty deal,
Or send to hell whoe’er oppose,
Judge not by this fallacious sign
That all assurance is divine.

Verse 2
Silence when the Almighty broke,
He answer’d for the sentenc’d man,
Against his hasty judges spoke;
That ye might humbling wisdom gain,
Might each his censuring blindness own,
And judgment leave to God alone.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “O that God would speak, and open his lips against thee.”—[Job] xi. 5. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 241.
Publishing: Public Domain