Tremble, thou hypocrite profane,
Who dost mankind deceive,
Though God his righteous wrath refrain,
And let thy body live!
Ev’n while it sins, thy soul expires,
And soon sent down to hell
In unextinguishable fires,
The second death shall feel.
Tremble thou hypocrite profane
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Ananias hearing these words, fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.’—[Acts 5,] v. 5.” 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 182.
Publishing: Public Domain