The process of that dreadful day

Verse 1
The process of that dreadful day,
Discerning truth from specious lies,
Shall every principle display,
Shall every doctrine scrutinise,
If one with the unerring word,
The standard of our heavenly Lord.

Verse 2
He comes triumphant from above,
His lightnings set the world on fire;
The fire shall every fabric prove,
And if, ‘midst flaming worlds entire,
‘Midst burning heat thy house remain,
Thou shalt a full reward obtain.

Verse 3
But if the fire thy work consume,
Thy labour’s recompence is lost;
Yet rescued from the’ apostate’s doom,
Who feebly didst on Jesus trust,
Thou shalt out of the burning fly,
And scarcely saved, attain the sky.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall reveal it, because it shall be revealed by fire, and the fire shall try every man’s work, of what sort it is.’—[1 Cor.] 3:13.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” 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 1977/576, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. The entire hymn was published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 462-63. Verses 2-4 were published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), pages 27-28.
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