Ye that of power and riches proud

Verse 1
Ye that of power and riches proud,
Above the race of mortals rise,
And scorn the low, ignoble croud,
And reign exalted to the skies,
Repent, before the Judge appear,
Or read your fearful sentence here.

Verse 2
Ye gods of earth, expect to dwell
With fiends and spirits damn’d below,
To find your thrones prepar’d in hell,
Unless ye here your madness know,
Prostrate, condemn’d, the Judge intreat,
And mercy find at Jesus’ feet.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Thou Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell.’—[Matt. 11,] v. 23.” 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 251.
Publishing: Public Domain