The world immerst in Satan lay

Verse 1
The world immerst in Satan lay,
The world by Satan was possest,
Till God assum’d our sinful clay,
T’ expel the demon from our breast,
Extend the vict’ry of his grace,
And vindicate the ransom’d race.

Verse 2
Long undisturb’d the tempter keeps
His house, and rules without controul;
The soul in his possession sleeps,
The careless, gay, unthinking soul
No trouble fears, no evil sees,
But rests secure in hellish peace.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace.’—[Luke 11,] v. 21.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 129. Verse 2 was 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 204.
Publishing: Public Domain