Who Jesus’ warning words receive,
The perishable goods we leave
Ev’n now in heart and mind,
Our souls to save, without delay
We fly, and cast the world away,
And never look behind.
Who Jesus’ warning words receive
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away &c.'—[Luke 17,] v. 31.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 167.
Publishing: Public Domain