Stop, poor sinner! stop and think

Stop, poor sinner! stop and think. John Newton* (1725-1807).  This is from Olney Hymns (1779), Book III, ‘On the Rise, Progress, Changes, and Comforts of the Spiritual Life.’ It was the second hymn in the first section of Book III, ‘Solemn Addresses to Sinners’, entitled ‘Alarm’. It had five stanzas:  Stop, poor sinner! stop and think  Before you farther go!Will you sport upon the brink  Of everlasting woe?Once again I charge you, stop!  For, unless you warning take,Ere you are aware, you drop  Into the burning lake!  Stay, have you an arm like God, That you his will oppose? Fear you not that iron rod With which he breaks his foes?Can you stand in that dread day, When he judgment shall...