The dust shook off, shall rise

Verse 1
The dust shook off shall rise
In judgment, to condemn
Sinners, who dare the men despise,
That offer Christ to them:
The dust shook off shall prove
Salvation once was near;
But they refus’d the Master’s love,
Who spurn’d the messenger.

Verse 2
Who put their guides to flight
Nor will the truth obey,
Reject with them the gospel-light,
And cast the salt away:
Who faithful men and just
Out of their pale expel,
Out of the church themselves they thrust,
Themselves they doom to hell.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.’—[Acts 13,] v. 51.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 286.
Publishing: Public Domain