Ah, wretched man, when God requires
His soul, who in his sins expires!
His soul alas, is his no more,
Consign’d to the tormentor’s power!
Losing his soul, he loses all,
Yet cannot into nothing fall,
But hopelesly his doom bemoans,
And pours in hell eternal groans.
Ah! wretched man when God requires
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and give the vineyard to others.’—[Mark 12,] v. 9.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 51.
Publishing: Public Domain