Ye pitiless, hard-hearted men

Ye pitiless, hard-hearted men,
Pardon to others who deny,
Ye lose your grace, receiv’d in vain,
And soon ye in your sins shall die:
Harsh to your fellow-servants here,
Who rig’rously exact your due,
When Christ doth in the clouds appear,
Judgment alone remains for you.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Shouldst not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow-servant, even as I had pity on thee?’—[Matt. 18,] v. 33.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 320.
Publishing: Public Domain