Still the old serpent doth deceive
The men who dare in sin to live:
Poor souls, they hold his promise fast,
And hope—to be all sav’d at last!
“Ye need not be so much afraid
Of hell: whatever God hath said,
Ye shall not, who on me rely,
Not surely—not forever die!”
Still the old serpent doth deceive
Hymnal/Album: Original title: “The serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die.”—[Gen.] iii. 4. 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 4.
Publishing: Public Domain