Tho’ every sinful act increase
Our strong propensity to sin,
Into our heart it need not press,
We need not let the evil in:
Tho’ sin lie knocking at the door,
Admittance we may still refuse,
For Jesus doth to all restore
The power or life or death to chuse.
Though every sinful act increase
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “If thou dost not well, sin lieth at the door.”—[Gen.] iv. 7. 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 12.
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