Woe to the men whom Jesus leaves

Verse 1
Wo to the men whom Jesus leaves,
Who force their Saviour to depart!
Up to their own desires He gives,
Their own obduracy of heart:
They seek him then, but seek too late,
Who long refus’d his love to feel,
They sink beneath his judgments weight,
They sink with all their sins to hell.

Verse 2
Thou didst foretell the fearful doom
Of that self-reprobated race,
That we in this our day may come,
And humbly seek, and find thy grace:
Entring into thy love’s design,
We give thee, Lord, our broken heart:
Us to Thyself so closely join
That neither life nor death may part.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.’—[John 8,] v. 21." 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 422.
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