Jesus obtain’d us the reprieve

Jesus obtain’d us the reprieve;
Yet must we use the means and fly,
The world, the tents of sinners, leave,
Or blended with the wicked die.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men.”—[Num.] xvi. 26. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 80.
Publishing: Public Domain