The men of wealth and character

Verse 1
The men of wealth and character,
The men of earth who settle here,
And count the world their home,
Intangled in the toils of hell,
Shall all the weight of vengeance feel,
And all the wrath to come.

Verse 2
But we who God in Jesus know,
Superior to the things below,
To every creature love,
Beyond the fowler’s net we fly,
On eagle’s wings divide the sky,
And dwell with Christ above.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘As a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.’—[Luke 21,] v. 35.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 280.
Publishing: Public Domain