To damn us by our own desires

Verse 1
To damn us by our own desires,
Satan the world employs,
With avarice, and ambition fires,
And visionary joys,
By pomp, and state, and pageantry
Allures us to his shrine,
And tells my soul, Bow down to me
And all my world is thine.

Verse 2
But we a kingdom here receive,
A kingdom from above,
Which only Christ hath power to give,
Which never can remove:
The devil’s proffers we disdain,
Who worship Christ alone,
Partakers of his patience reign,
Partakers of his throne.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The devil taketh him into an exceeding high mountain and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world &c.’—Matt. 4, v. 8.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 155.
Publishing: Public Domain