A crime resolv’d upon
Is more than half-compleat,
And who no more occasions shun
Will soon occasions meet:
Who bow to passion’s sway
Shall find, from fear releast,
For sin the most convenient day
Is a licentious feast.
A crime resolved upon
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When a convenient day was come.’—[Mark 6,] 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 496.
Publishing: Public Domain