Tremble who slight the word ye hear

Verse 1
Tremble, who slight the word ye hear,
Nor will repent, believe, obey;
Damnation from salvation fear:
The word shall judge you in that day,
When drag’d out of your graves ye rise,
To die the death that never dies.

Verse 2
Then, then ye shall with anguish own
Ye might have took9 the proffer’d grace,
Ye might have God in Jesus known,
And liv’d the life of righteousness,
Ye might have felt your sins forgiven,
Ye once were at the gates of heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.’—[Luke 10,] v. 11.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 192.
Publishing: Public Domain