The poem warns of the peril in misrepresenting God’s forgiveness, highlighting how a sinner, assured of divine mercy, remains unrepentant and unconfessed, falsely believing themselves forgiven. It contrasts God’s abundant, genuine grace with the sinner’s delusion, fueled by a deceptive gospel that promises salvation without change. The piece crescendos into a chilling realization of the “hellish horror” and inevitable consequences of this error. Written in rhymed quatrains with an AABB rhyme scheme, its twelve lines use a steady, hymn-like rhythm to underscore the gravity of the

They told the sinner, “God forgives,”
His boundless grace forever lives,
Abundant mercy, pure and wide,
A love no darkness can divide.
Yet unrepentant stands the soul,
Unbroken, proud, without a toll,
No whispered plea, no humbled cry,
They claim His pardon from a lie.
A false gospel, smoothly spun,
Deceives the heart, the truth undone—
Oh, the hellish horror wakes,
A trembling doom for such mistakes.