Thrice solemn, thrice repeated word,
For all who at thy bar are cast!
Most merciful, most righteous Lord,
Thy justice, as thy grace, shall last:
But all that now invoke thy name,
That trust thy bleeding sacrifice,
Shall flee with us the quenchless flame,
Shall ’scape the worm that never dies.
Thrice solemn, thrice repeated word
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.”—[Mark] ix. 48. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). 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 29.
Publishing: Public Domain