Thus they fill their measure up
Who hate the messengers:
What can their damnation stop,
When the great King appears?
Jesus in the flaming skies
With his Angelic hosts shall come,
Fire their earthly paradise,
And all his foes consume.
Thus they fill their measure up
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But when the King heard thereof, he was wroth, and he sent forth his servants, and destroyed those murtherers, and burnt up their city.’—Matt. 22,] Verse 7.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 36.
Publishing: Public Domain