With what indifferent carelesness

Verse 1
With what indifferent carelesnes
He speaks of his expiring God,
Who died for him, and all our race,
And bought our pardon with his blood!
Is it a trivial question then,
If Jesus is gone up on high?
Unless our Surety lives again,
Festus and all mankind must die.

Verse 2
The rich and great of Festus learn
That Jesus slightingly to name;
They in his death have no concern,
No ben’fit from his life they claim:
Alas, they will not now believe
That every knee to Him shall bend,
And from his mouth their doom receive
To joys or pains that never end!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.’—[Acts 25,] v. 19." This hymn 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. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 419.
Publishing: Public Domain