The wretch profane who without dread

Verse 1
The wretch profane who without dread
That sacred, sacramental bread
Unworthily receives,
Constrains the Saviour to depart,
And full possession of his heart
To the destroyer gives.

Verse 2
The slaves of lust and avarice
Satan demands as lawful prize,
The god whom they adore,
Invited by the world and sin
After the sop he enters in,
And never leaves them more.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And after the sop Satan entred into him.’—[John 13,] v. 27." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 259.
Publishing: Public Domain