Sinners redeem’d, yet still inclin’d
To sin, should tremble at the name:
The evils we in others find
Ourselves may soon commit the same;
And I shall act the traitor’s part,
If e’er I trust my treacherous heart.
Sinners redeemed, yet still inclined
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake.’—[John 13,] v. 22." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 506.
Publishing: Public Domain