All, the awful Judge to see,
Out of their graves shall rise:
Wise unto salvation he
Whom death cannot surprize:
Wretched souls that sleep in sin,
That unprepar’d till death remain!
All who then their work begin,
Begin their work in vain.
All, the awful Judge to see
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.’—[Matt. 25,] v. 7.” 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 383.
Publishing: Public Domain