Vengeance doth to God belong

Verse 1
Vengeance doth to God belong:
Who the heart of Jesus have,
Kindness we return for wrong,
Only wish our foes to save:
If to Christ in Spirit join’d,
If in us his bowels move,
Anger at the sin we find,
More than life the sinner love.

Verse 2
Let the furious sons of Rome
Show extirminating zeal,
Loathsom her’ticks to consume,
Call for fire from heav’n—or hell:
Lord, in their behalf we call,
Send thy Spirit from above,
Burn their sins, consume them all,
Burn their souls with fire—of love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come from heaven, and consume them.’—[Luke 9,] v. 54.” 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 189.
Publishing: Public Domain