A youth possessed by sin

Verse 1
A youth possest by sin
Obeys the spirit unclean,
Horribly at times he roars,
For his own damnation calls;
Satan governs all his powers,
Bruises by a thousand falls.

Verse 2
Weaker for each he lies,
And more attach’d to vice:
Shorter every interval;
Fiercer lusts his bosom tear,
Shake him o’re the mouth of hell,
Leave him sunk in sad despair.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out, and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him, hardly departeth from him.'—[Luke 9,] v. 39.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 187.
Publishing: Public Domain