Ah, wretched souls, who urg’d by shame
Desert your Master’s cause,
Before the world deny his name,
And stumble at his cross!
Disown’d before the heavenly host,
Ye shall receive your hire,
Out from his glorious presence thrust
Into eternal fire.
Ah! wretched souls, who urg’d by shame
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.”—[Matt.] x. 33. 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 240.
Publishing: Public Domain