To each sinful inclination
Lord, no longer we give ear,
Thee, the God of our salvation,
Only Thee we now would hear:
Prophet, to thy brethren given,
We to thy commands submit:
Speak; and make it all our heaven
Still to listen at thy feet.
To each sinful inclination
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Him shall ye hear.’—[Acts 7,] v. 37.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 212.
Publishing: Public Domain