When the great God His spirit pours

Verse 1
When the great God his Spirit pours,
Judgment attends in flaming showers,
To plague the disobedient race,
And vindicate his slighted grace.

Verse 2
His wrath He with his love reveals,
The vessels of destruction fills,
The bold despisers of his word,
And pleads his cause with fire and sword.

Verse 3
He soon his prodigies will show
In heaven above, and earth below,
The heavenly powers shall melt and shake,
The earth to its foundation quake.

Verse 4
The sun and moon eclips’d shall be
With permanent obscurity,
And then the day of general doom,
And then the glorious Judge is come!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I will shew wonders in heaven &c.’—[Acts 2,] v. 19.” It 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. Two stanzas were published posthumously in 1870, but the entire poem was not published until 1990: Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 288. 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 147.
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