The world and their infernal god
Have rul’d us with an iron rod,
And long our slavish souls have been
Gaul’d by the rigorous yoke of sin:
Yet drudging on with abject fear
We serv’d our haughty lords severe,
And hardly daring to complain,
We kiss’d the rod, and hugg’d the chain.
The world and their infernal god
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour.”—[Exod.] i. 13. 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 34.
Publishing: Public Domain