The men of an unstable mind

Verse 1
The men of an unstable mind,
Themselves who never throughly knew,
Their eager hope and passion blind
For things extraordinary and new
Exposes them to Satan wiles,
Who makes their souls his easy spoils.

Verse 2
To each seducer they give ear,
In every lying prophet trust,
Who claims the sinless character,
Who dares his own perfection boast,
“Of glory in an instant sure,
“And pure at once, as God is pure!”

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Take heed lest any man deceive you &c.’—[Mark 13,] v. 5.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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 60.
Publishing: Public Domain