Religion

Revelation 16:15: Let all the sons of light

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 13 (1872)

Religion

Let all the sons of light
Expect their Lord to come,
Unlook'd for, in the dead of night,
A sleeping world to doom:
Let all who Jesus know,
To meet their God prepare,
And pass their every hour below
In watching unto prayer.

Long as I watch, I keep
The blessing once bestow'd,
But forfeit, if again I sleep,
The richest grace of God;
Exposed and stripp'd of all
The' apostate's doom I feel,
And from perfection's summit fall
Into the deepest hell.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Revelation 16:15: Let all the sons of light.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/7166/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Revelation 16:15: Let all the sons of light.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/7166/.

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