Who doth not in the Son believe

Verse 1
Who doth not in the Son believe
Condemn’d he in his sins remains,
But death-devoted, a reprieve
Thro’ Jesus intercession gains:
Yet O, the sentence must take place,
If still his Saviour he denies,
And scorning all his proffer’d grace
A wilful unbeliever dies.

Verse 2
Shut up by unbelief, within
The tempter’s power a while he dwells,
Under the guilt of reigning sin
Its cruel tyranny he feels;
He might thro’ Jesus name receive
The power which all believers know,
But will not come to Christ, and live,
But will not lose his place below.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.’—[John 3,] v. 18." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 223.
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