Urg’d by his old infernal lord
Who fear’d to lose his lawful prey,
He draws the self-destroyer’s sword,
Body and soul at once to slay,
Nor knows, the End of sin and fear,
His true, eternal Life is near!
Urged by his old infernal lord
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He drew out his sword, and would have killed himself.’—[Acts 16,] v. 27.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 320.
Publishing: Public Domain