Verse 1
Lovers of earthly things defer
Unto another day
Their one important business here,
As life would always stay,
As grace were in the sinners power,
And God compel’d to give,
Whene’er they find a vacant hour
His mercy to receive.
Verse 2
The gospel some with scorn refuse
The joyful tidings hate,
Others neglect the grace to use,
And still procrastinate:
To scoff the saving truth they dare,
Or cast it quite aside:
And these alas, the Christians are,
And these the world divide!