Thy judgments, Lord, in ages past

Verse 1
Thy judgments, Lord, in ages past
Are types and figures of the last,
And warn us to repent,
Yet millions make thy warnings vain,
Secure in sin they still remain,
And die impenitent.

Verse 2
The world we now, like Noah’s, see,
Drunk with the same stupidity,
In present things employ’d,
For sensual joy and vain delight
The everlasting goods they slight,
And dare the wrath of God.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.’—[Luke 17,] v. 26.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 165.
Publishing: Public Domain