Great judge, and lawgiver supreme,
Shall man thine attributes deny,
Thy sovereign righteousness blaspheme,
Or give thine awful truth the lie?
With reason’s line we cannot prove
Thy judgment’s infinite abyss,
But trust t’ inherit thro’ thy love
A whole eternity of bliss.
Great Judge, and Lawgiver supreme
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.”—[Mark] ix. 46. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). 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 29.
Publishing: Public Domain