To the world and Satan sold

Verse 1
To the world, and Satan sold,
Sinner, what is Christ to thee?
Pleasure is thy God, or gold;
Bondslave of iniquity,
Panting for the praise of man,
Canst thou feel an heavier chain?

Verse 2
Didst Thou ever yet intend
God in all thy ways to please?
No; the creature is thy end:
Dost thou not the charge confess?
Naked in its Maker’s sight,
Ask thy heart, if it be right?

Verse 3
No; thy guilty heart must own,
Far from God, and foul as hell:
Feel it now, and deeply groan
All thy filthiness to feel;
Struggle in th’ infernal snare,
Sink at last in self-despair.

Verse 4
Then behold the heavenly Lamb,
Pouring out his blood divine,
On the brink of Tophet claim
Christ the sinners Friend for thine,
Find with all his saints thy part,
Find thy Saviour in thy heart.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.”—[Acts] viii. 21. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). He later modified this for his 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 225.
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