The sins which men at thy command
Refuse, O God, t’ expel,
Shall sweep them off the promis’d land,
Shall drive them out to hell;
The lusts which for the Saviour’s sake
They will not mortify,
Shall bring thy threaten’d curse, and make
Their souls forever die.
The sins which men at Thy command
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.”—[Num.] xxxiii. 56. 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 87.
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