Wretched world! the call who slight
To real happiness,
Seek in wealth their vain delight,
In soft, voluptuous ease,
Sunk in sloth, or lost in care,
Who Jesus’ proffer’d grace refuse,
Both implung’d in late despair
Their souls forever lose.
Wretched world! the call who slight
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm &c.”’—Matt. 22,] Verse 5.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 36.
Publishing: Public Domain