Ye who madly love your sins

Ye who madly love your sins,
By the worldly spirit led,
Know, that Satan is your prince,
Know, the devil is your head:
Ye that your own will pursue,
Only move as he inspires,
His designs ye blindly do,
Gratify the fiend’s desires.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The prince of this world cometh.’—[John 14,] v. 30." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 263-64.
Publishing: Public Domain