See the wretchedness of sin!

Verse 1
See the wretchedness of sin!
See the fiend’s tormenting rage!
Man admits the legion in,
Makes his heart a devilish cage;
Then by furious lusts possest,
Wounds himself, and cuts, and beats,
Spreads the hell within his breast,
Tears, and tortures all he meets.

Verse 2
In the dark abodes of death
Long he dwells, and hates the light,
Hastning to his place beneath,
Mansions of eternal night:
Never can his soul be freed,
Till to him the Saviour comes:
Then he leaves the doubly dead,
Then he issues from the tombs.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘There met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.’—[Matt. 8,] v. 28.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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 218.
Publishing: Public Domain