Wesley, John and Charles

861. A sinner's heart by lust possess'd [from Hymns on the Four Gospels, and Acts of the Apostles. Including Such "Short Hymns" as Were Published in 1762.]

1868

"A sinner's heart by lust possess'd, / Of birds unclean the loathsome nest, / Of fiends the dark abode; / A stinking sepulchre it lies, / While the poor wretch with horror flies / The sight of man and God."

A sinner's heart by lust possess'd,
Of birds unclean the loathsome nest,
  Of fiends the dark abode;
A stinking sepulchre it lies,
While the poor wretch with horror flies
  The sight of man and God.

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Text from The Poetical works of John and Charles Wesley, Ed. G. Osborn, 13 vols. (London: The Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868). <Link to Hathi Trust>

More than 5,100 hymns written by Wesley for Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, with six books of material left (over 1,000 hymns) in manuscript. Unpublished were the hymns on the "Four Gospels and the Acts of Apostles."

04/29/2012