If such the punishment of those
The ministers who barely slight,
Wo to the men who dare oppose
The truth, and with its Author fight,
The servants slay, the Lord blaspheme!
No hell is hot enough for them.
If such the punishment of those
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment than for that city.’—[Matt. 10,] v. 15.” 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 236.
Publishing: Public Domain