Eternal Judge of quick and dead
Thee, Jesus, I my Lord adore,
From whom my sentence must proceed,
And tremble at thy boundless power!
Judge me not in thy wrath severe,
But in the mildness of thy grace;
Afflict, rebuke, and chasten here,
But never drive me from thy face.
Eternal Judge of quick and dead, Thee, Jesus
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The Father hath committed all judgment unto the Son.’—[John 5,] v. 22." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 371.
Publishing: Public Domain