Woe to them who will not own
The truth, the life, the way,
Will not the eternal Son
As God supreme obey!
Judge of all he soon shall come,
The dreadful penalty require,
Every unbeliever doom
To everlasting fire.
Woe to them who will not own
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Whosoever will not hearken unto my words, which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.”—[Deut.] xviii. 19. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 103.
Publishing: Public Domain