Who his coming shall abide

Verse 1
Who his coming shall abide,
Stand his day, when Christ appears?
Not the violent sons of pride,
Not th’ unfaithful ministers:
Those who made his precepts void
Cannot from his judgments flee,
Cast out of his sight, destroy’d,
Damn’d to all eternity.

Verse 2
Idle, mercenary, proud,
Robbers of the church and poor,
Would ye ’scape the wrath of God,
Wrath that always shall endure?
While ye hear your punishment,
To the righteous sentence bow,
Let your lives the doom prevent,
Let your lives forbid it now.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others.'—[Luke 20,] v. 16.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 183-84.
Publishing: Public Domain