The poetical works of John and Charles Wesley

Sole self-existing God most high,
From all eternity the same,
Why wilt Thou let Thy foes deny
Thy Godhead, and revile Thy name?
Jesus, Jehovah, Jah, descend,
And bid the hour of darkness end.

The star (in Thy right hand no more)
Which on the' embitter'd waters fell,
How has he shed his baleful power,
Wasted the earth, and peopled hell,
While millions drink the Arian lie,
Or poison'd by Socinus, die!

Less pestilent the men who dare
Thy coming in the flesh gainsay,
And sitting in the scorner's chair
Cast all Thine oracles away,
Led by their own sufficient light
To horrors of eternal night.

How long shall Antichrist blaspheme
And trample on Thy written will?
How long shall the Pelagian dream
The doom of fallen spirits seal;
And error in ten thousand forms
Destroy the souls of ransom'd worms?

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Destroy the souls—which cannot end!
Though Satan may awhile deceive,
That liar old, and murderous fiend,
Who tells them “they at last shall live,”
Extinguishes the' eternal fire,
And makes the deathless worm expire.

What but the' essential Truth Divine
Can all this gloom of hell disperse?
Jesus, the Father's Glory, shine,
To teach our darken'd universe,
In every new-born soul to prove,
That Thou art God, and God is love!

Arius, see Rev. viii. 10.

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HYMN XXXV. FOR THE ARIANS, SOCINIANS, DEISTS, PELAGIANS, &c.