Secrets of the heart made known.
AND must I be to judgment brought, 
  
And answer in that day
  
For every vain and idle thought, 
  
And every word I say? 
2 Yes, every secret of my heart 
  
Shall shortly be made known, 
  
And I receive my just desert 
  
For all that I have done. 
3 How careful then ought I to live; 
  
With what religious fear; 
  
Who such a strict account must give 
  
For my behaviour here. 
4 Thou awful Judge of quick and dead,
  
The watchful power bestow; 
  
So shall I to my ways take heed,— 
  
To all I speak or do. 
5 If now thou standest at the door, 
  
O let me feel thee near; 
  
And make my peace with God, before 
  
I at thy bar appear. 
                        
Charles Wesley
                        
Methodist Episcopal hymnal (1870 edition)
 

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