Sin enter’d by the eye, and made
Its way to Adam’s heart:
Satan, who thus our sire betray’d,
On Jesus tries his art:
But vain the serpent’s hope to move
The Son of God Most-high,
Who built those glorious worlds above,
Who fills both earth and sky.
Sin enter’d by the eye, and made
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The devil taketh him into an exceeding high mountain and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world &c.’—[Matt. 4,] v. 8.” 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 155.
Publishing: Public Domain