God at last in anger said

God at last in anger said
(Leaving judgment to his Son)
Slay the soul already dead,
Cut the formal Christian down,
Let his gracious day be o’re,
Let him clog the church no more.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then said he ... Cut it down &c.’—[Luke 13,] v. 7.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 143.
Publishing: Public Domain