Ah, foolish man, who hears thy word,
But doth not what thy laws command,
Who fondly calls thee Lamb, or Lord,
Till the house tumbles on the sand!
How infinite the ruin is
Of a lost soul, cut off from thee!
He falls into the dark abyss,
He falls—to all eternity!
Ah, foolish man, who hears thy word
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “It fell, and great was the fall of it.”—[Matt.] vii. 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 206.
Publishing: Public Domain