Religion

Matthew 18:3: Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, &c

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 10 (1871)

Religion

Usurpers of the Christian name.
Slaves to the proud ambitious sin,
Heaven as your own howe'er ye claim
Unchanged ye cannot enter in.
Unless your inmost spirit prove
The humbling power of childlike love.

Ye must, ye must be born again,
Converted by a change entire,
A child's simplicity attain,
Or sink in everlasting fire;
The Truth, the Truth Himself hath spoke
The word He never will revoke.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Matthew 18:3: Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, &c.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4335/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Matthew 18:3: Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, &c.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4335/.

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