Saviour, the fond delusion stop
Of nature’s unsupported hope,
Which bids us snatch th’ unlabour’d prize,
And into sudden pillars rise,
Step o’er the cross, and work between,
And sleeping, dream—“we cannot sin!”
Saviour, the fond delusion stop
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The earth bringeth forth first the blade; then the ear.”— Mark iv. 28. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 32.
Publishing: Public Domain