When mercy’s day is o’er

Verse 1
When mercy’s day is o’re,
And time exists no more,
Nothing but the wrath of God
Doth for guilty souls remain;
Sinners then shall bear their load,
Load of everlasting pain.

Verse 2
In vain they would decline
The vengeful wrath divine,
Would to rocks for shelter call,
Of the righteous Judge afraid,
Bid th’ o’rewhelming mountains fall
On their hell-devoted head.

Verse 3
But now thro’ faith we may
To Christ escape away,
In the Mount of holiness,
In the Rock of Israel hide,
There our quiet souls possess,
Rest secure in Jesus side.

Verse 4
Jesus, our souls receive,
Who diedst that we may live,
Live, till sav’d from sin and fear
We our spotless lives lay down,
Rise to see our Judge appear,
Hail Thee on thy great white throne.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us &c.’—[Luke 23,] v. 30.” 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 301.
Publishing: Public Domain