The most apostate spirit below

The most apostate spirit below
Amidst his torments shall confess,
His season he refus’d to know,
When visited by saving grace:
This, sinner, makes the hell of hell,
Thou might’st have liv’d on earth forgiven,
Consign’d to flames unquenchable,
Thou might’st have gain’d the joys of heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.'—[Luke 19,] v. 44.” 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 269.
Publishing: Public Domain