Who lose the salt of grace

Verse 1
Who lose the salt of grace
The humble, loving zeal,
Most dreadful is their case
Most irretrievable,
Insipid souls, and only fit
For Satan, and his hellish pit!

Verse 2
O may I ever be
The least in my own eyes
Retain my poverty,
And labour for the prize,
And always dread th’ apostate’s doom,
And watch, and pray, till Jesus come!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘If the salt have lost its savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?'—[Luke 14,] v. 34.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 152.
Publishing: Public Domain