A child of hell with Satan joins

A child of hell with Satan joins,
His ready instrument of ill,
Enters into the fiend’s designs,
(Who comes to steal, deceive, and kill;)
Envious against the truth he fights
Which would his direful deeds bewray,
And like, his murthering sire, delights
The souls of innocents to slay.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father, ye will do: he was a murtherer from the beginning &c.’—[John 8,] v. 44." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 431.
Publishing: Public Domain