Th’ occasion of my every fall,
I still perceive within,
’Till sav’d by thee, on whom I call,
From this indwelling sin:
Thou canst, thou wilt, (I dare not doubt)
The stumbling-block remove,
And root my evil nature out
By thine all-perfect love.
The’ occasion of my every fall
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “There is none occasion of stumbling in him.”—1 John ii. 10. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 196.
Publishing: Public Domain