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.