A moment more had Lot delayed

Verse 1
A moment more had Lot delay’d,
A moment more in Sodom stay’d,
The fire had stopt his flight,
Had swept away his tardy soul,
And sunk him in the sulphe’rous pool
With all the sons of night.

Verse 2
But warn’d out of the flames he fled,
That we with instantaneous speed
May from destruction run,
Like Lot, our all forego, despise,
Before the vengeance of the skies
In fiery storms come down.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.'—[Luke 17,] v. 29.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 166.
Publishing: Public Domain