Wesley Corpus

Page 189 "Prepared for the devil and his angels." Matt. xxv. 41. Not for the wretched sons of men Was Tophet first prepar'd, Intruders into hellish pain, They snatch the fiend's reward: If just, as well as good, thou art, Thy vengeance they require, And force thee, Lord, to say, "Depart Into eternal fire!" "Ye did it not to me." Matt. xxv. 45. Equal and just are all thy ways! Forever banish'd from thy sight, The wicked shall at last confess, The judge of all the earth doth right: Justly thine utmost wrath they prove, Who would not thy salvation see, Refus'd the faith producing love, And in thy poor neglected thee. "These shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life everlasting." Matt. xxv. 46. Most gracious, most tremendous Lord, The sentence which proceeds from thee, For punishment, or for reward, Must stand thro' all eternity: Our states assign'd by wrath, or love, Shall neither change, nor period know, But long as saints rejoice above, Unhappy souls shall howl below. "Ye have the poor always with you." Matt. xxvi. 11. The poor supply thy place, Deputed, Lord, by thee, To exercise our grace, Our faith and charity, And what to thee in them is given, Is laid up for ourselves in heaven.