A wicked priest to hell consigned

Verse 1
A wicked priest to hell consign’d
Demands the hottest torments there:
But every soul his lot shall find,
Who makes not God and heaven his care:
And thou that evil servant art,
Who wilt not give to Christ thy heart.

Verse 2
Who dost that awful day forget,
As Christ thy Lord would ne’er appear,
Thy brethren wrongfully entreat,
And live in sin and pleasures here,
Surpriz’d by death, expect thy hire,
Thy portion in eternal fire.

Verse 3
So dear thy sinful pleasures cost
Which but for one short moment last;
Thou knowst too late, that all is lost,
When into flaming sulphur cast,
To gnaw thy tongue, and gnash thy teeth,
And die that everlasting death.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him &c.’—Matt. 24, v. 50, 51.” 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 381.
Publishing: Public Domain