Divinely warn’d of judgments near

Verse 1
Divinely warn’d of judgments near,
Noah believ’d a threatning[1] God,
With humble faith, and holy fear
He built the ark, and ’scap’d the flood.

Verse 2
He (while the world that disbeliev’d,
The careless world of sinners died,)
The righteousness of faith receiv’d:
Noah by faith was justified.

Verse 3
We too by faith the world condemn,
Of righteousness divine possest,
Escape the wrath that covers them,
Safe in the ark of Jesu’s breast.

[1] Wesley corrected the original misprint of “threating” to “threatening in 1743.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “The Life of Faith, Exemplified in the Eleventh Chapter of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Hebrews.” Introduced in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), published by John and Charles Wesley (London: William Strahan, 1740). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 1 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868), page 212.
Publishing: Public Domain