When Jesus comes, in this our day
We see the word accomplish’d still,
The father doth the son betray,
The children would their parent kill;
Abhorring their own flesh and blood,
They burst thro’ nature’s closest ties:
And thus the world adore their god
Well-pleas’d with human sacrifice!
When Jesus comes, in this our day
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child, &c.’—[Matt. 10,] v. 21.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 25.
Publishing: Public Domain