Fire and Brimstone

Reading old hymns always challenges me. Some of the differences between what believers sang 250 years ago and what they sing today can be chalked up to taste and cultural context. But very often I think that the pale, anemic material of contemporary worship services is a reflection of a pale, anemic faith.
It takes a robust, self-confident sort of faith to sing the vivid and unapologetic stuff of the English Evangelical Revival.

Take the following verses of a hymn by Charles Wesley:

Sinner, art thou still secure?
Wilt thou still refuse to pray?
Can thy heart or hands endure
In the Lord's avenging day?

See, His mighy arm is bared!
Awful terrors clothe His brow!
For His gudgment stand prepared,
Thou must either break or bow.

At His presence nature shakes,
Earth affrighted hastes to flee;
Solid mountains melt like wax,
What will then become of thee?

Who His advent may abide?
You that glory in your shame,
Will you find a place to hide
When the world is wrapped in flame?

It goes on. There are four more verses of conviction ending on a bright note of promise and hope.
Here's the thing, though: while there is nothing seeker sensitive about this, it is more specifically seeker oriented than any contemporary chorus that I can think of. It was written intentionally to be sung by believers to the unbelievers in attendance. What do you think? Is there a place for this heavy-handed, overt sort of fire and brimstone in contemporary worship?