The awful prophecy

Verse 1
The awful prophecy
Accomplish’d now we own,
While Christian infidels deny,
And mock the God unknown:
Thy present work of grace
They will not, Lord, believe,
Though thousands by their lives confess
Thou dost on earth forgive.

Verse 2
Amaz’d the scoffers stand,
And see on every side
The wonders of thine outstretch’d hand
On sinners justified.
Convinc’d they will not be,
Till mercy’s day is past,
In stubborn incredulity
Resolv’d to die at last.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.’—[Acts 13,] v. 41.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 282.
Publishing: Public Domain