By turning now to Thee, our Lord

By turning now to thee our Lord,
Tho’ to the brink of Tophet driven,
We all may ’scape the dreadful word,
We all may fly from hell to heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “How can ye escape the damnation of hell?”—[Matt.] xxiii. 33. 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 363.
Publishing: Public Domain