Who hears His warnings with disdain

Verse 1
Who hears his warnings with disdain,
And Jesus gifts receives in vain
Must fall from sin to sin,
No time in Satan’s service lose,
No hellish drudgery refuse,
Till Tophet takes him in.

Verse 2
Satan admits of no delay,
But governs with despotic sway
Whoe’er his yoke receives,
His slave he drives, and urges on,
But never ventures him, alone,
Or time for thinking gives.

Verse 3
But O! how desperate he and blind,
Who Jesus leaves so good and kind,
For an infernal lord!
The frantic, base, ungrateful fool
Plung’d headlong in the burning pool
Must share the fiend’s reward.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He then having received the sop, went immediately out.’—[John 13,] v. 30." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 260-61. Verse 1 was 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 509.
Publishing: Public Domain