Soon out of the house of God

Soon out of the house of God
The slave of sin is cast,
Cast into a fiery flood,
And pains that alway last:
But the child of faith and love
His full recompence shall gain
In his Father’s house above
Eternally remain.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The servant abideth not in the house forever: but the son abideth ever.’—[John 8,] v. 35." 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 427.
Publishing: Public Domain