They felt the sharp two-edged sword

Verse 1
They felt the sharp two-edged sword,
Provok’d, and harden’d by the word
Which thousands sav’d, and heal’d,
The offers of salvation scorn’d,
With fiery indignation burn’d,
With rage and madness fill’d.

Verse 2
Servants of Christ, the same expect:
Their offer’d Lord who now reject
When ready to forgive,
You they will spitefully intreat,
Imprison, judge, and vex, and beat,
And count not fit to live.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.’—[Acts 5,] v. 33.” 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 193.
Publishing: Public Domain