Struck, but with no remorse within

Struck, but with no remorse within,
He dreads the wages of his sin,
He trembles to be thrust
By wrath into th’ abyss of fire,
And rather wishes God a liar,
And the great Judge unjust.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They besought him, that he would not command them to go out into the deep.’—[Luke 8,] v. 31.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 106.
Publishing: Public Domain