Thou, Lord, art greatly to be fear’d,
And dost our homage claim;
Thou wilt be by thy saints rever’d,
By all that know thy name:
Thy judgments keep the church in awe,
Ev’n those who sweetly prove
Wrote on their hearts the perfect law
Of liberty and love.
Thou, Lord, are greatly to be feared
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And great fear came upon all the church.”—[Acts 5,] v. 11.’” 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 184.
Publishing: Public Domain