Horrible apostasy!

Verse 1
Horrible apostacy!
Sinful souls, how can it be?
Sinful souls, so dearly bought,
From the house of bondage brought,
Wash’d in your Redeemer’s blood,
Tasting once that God is good,
Can ye your good God forsake,
Can ye to the world turn back?

Verse 2
Yes; I own the crime abhor’d,
Weary of my gracious Lord,
Him I have repuls’d and scorn’d,
Back again to Egypt turn’d:
That I may revolt no more,
Jesus come with all thy power,
All thy purity impart,
Fix, by reigning in my heart.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘To whom our fathers would not obey but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt.’—[Acts 7,] v. 39.” 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 213.
Publishing: Public Domain