While God his judgments sure defers,
Sinner, thy grasp of earth let go,
Nor load thyself with worldly cares,
Nor stop to seek thy good below;
The perishable goods forsake,
While yet thou mayst the mountain find,
Escape for life, nor once look back,
Nor leave one lingring wish behind.
While God His judgments sure defers
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Let him that is on the house-top not come to take any thing out of his house. Neither let him &c.’—[Matt. 24,] v. 17, 18.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 370.
Publishing: Public Domain