When once the devils are enter’d in,
And make the frantic herd rebel,
Following a multitude to sin,
We surely follow them to hell.
When once the devils are enter’d in
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.”—[Num.] xvi. 21. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 79.
Publishing: Public Domain