Eternal Judge of quick and dead, on me the salutary dread

Verse 1
Eternal Judge of quick and dead,
On me the salutary dread
Of thy great day bestow,
That now I may obedient be,
Take up my cross, and follow Thee,
And die to all below.

Verse 2
These are the works Thou dost require;
Who to that heavenly bliss aspire
Must live in these employ’d:
For only such the prize shall gain,
Meet the descending Son of Man,
And see the face of God.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then he shall reward every man according to his works.’—[Matt. 16,] v. 27.” 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 304.
Publishing: Public Domain