Thou who forward art to hear

Thou who forward art to hear,
But negligent to do,
Tremble, for the day draws near
Which shall thy folly shew:
Fair thou mayst a moment stand,
But when the storms of wrath assail,
Falls thy house upon the sand,
And tumbles into hell.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He that heareth and doth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house &c.’—[Luke 6,] v. 49.” 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 160.
Publishing: Public Domain