From the old deceiver’s snare

From the old deceiver’s snare
Keep me, Lord, in life’s decline,
Bid mine inmost soul beware
Lest I take his voice for thine,
Fall into delusion’s maze,
Wandring stars at last approve,
Saints thro’ instantaneous grace,
Boasters of their perfect love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘If any man say to you, Lo, here is Christ, or lo, he is there: believe him not.’—Mark 13, v. 21.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/574, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 62.
Publishing: Public Domain