That careless fool am I,
Who void of godly fear,
And making light of sin, defy
The heavenly lawgiver:
O might I here be shock’d,
Before his wrath I feel
Chas’d from the face of God, and mock’d
By all the fiends in hell.
That careless fool am I
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Fools make a mock at sin.”—[Prov.] xiv. 9. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 349.
Publishing: Public Domain