A great net the gospel is

Verse 1
A great net the gospel is,
Which cast into the sea
Sinners draws out of th’ abyss
Of sin and misery:
Good and bad promiscuous hear,
The sacraments alike partake,
Till that final day appear,
And Christ the difference make.

Verse 2
Holy and unholy now
The outward church compose,
But our Lord the heavens shall bow,
And part his friends and foes:
Cloth’d with boundless power Divine,
We know, Thou wilt to judgment come,
Severally to each assign
His just, eternal doom.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind.’—[Matt. 13,] v. 47.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 276.
Publishing: Public Domain