Sinners, who bewail your dead,
See from whence your sorrows flow:
If from nature they proceed,
Stop the unavailing woe:
Happy who in Jesus sleep:
Mourn aright, ye noisy croud,
For yourselves, not others, weep,
Foes to Christ, and dead to God.
Sinners who bewail your dead
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Why make ye this ado, and weep.’—[Mark 5,] v. 39.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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 489.
Publishing: Public Domain