The sentence pass’d on Adam’s race
I meekly in myself receive,
And thank thee for the warning grace,
That here I have not long to live:
I hasten to my real home,
For no reprieve, or respite cry;
But when the fatal hour is come,
My only business be, To die.
The sentence pass’d on Adam’s race
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “It is appointed unto men once to die.”—[Heb.] ix. 27. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 140.
Publishing: Public Domain