The heavenly Housholder at last
Vouchsaf’d to send his only Son:
They slew, out of the vineyard cast
The Heir, and seiz’d it for their own:
Wherefore their Lord in vengence came,
Those wicked husbandmen destroy’d:
And now they bear the Christian name
Who keep, and rule the church of God.
The heavenly Householder at last
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But last of all he sent unto them his Son &c.’—[Matt. 21,] v. 37–41.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 345.
Publishing: Public Domain