The infidel his doom shall bear

Verse 1
The infidel his doom shall bear,
In endless torments cry,
But never doth our Lord declare
“The unbaptiz’d shall die:”
In education’s fetters bound
Who miss the outward way,
Yet love their God, shall all be found
His people in that day.

Verse 2
He winks at ignorance sincere
In those that know his grace;
But no unholy souls appear
Before his glorious face:
Baptiz’d, or unbaptiz’d, they all
Shall die the second death,
And banish’d from his presence fall
Into their place beneath.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But he that believeth not shall be damned.’—[Mark 16,] v. 16.” 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 98.
Publishing: Public Domain