Will ye plead for sinning on,
For Satan’s service plead?
Rather throw his altar down,
And on his worship tread:
Us that he may never more
As advocates for sin employ,
Jesus, come, o’erturn his power,
And all his works destroy.
Will ye plead for sinning on
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Will ye plead for Baal?”—[Judg.] vi. 31. 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 135.
Publishing: Public Domain