Religion
Mark 1:13: He was there in the wilderness forty days, &c
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 10 (1871)
Life a temptation is!
Its troubles never cease:
Grief to grief doth still succeed,
Woe to woe, as wave to wave,
Till the last o'erwhelms our head.
Sinks us to the quiet grave.
Soon as one fight is done,
Another is begun:
Satan watches us to see
When the flesh is mortified,
Tempts us by our victory,
Drives us on the rock of pride.
Ah, whither shall I run
By grace itself undone?
How escape my inbred foe.
While I in the furnace dwell,
Hunted by the fiends below,
Compass'd with the toils of hell?
To Christ the tempted I
Tempted for help apply,
Meekly suffer to the end
Forty days or forty years,
Till the flaming guards descend,
Till the angel-God appears.
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MLA
Wesley, Charles. “Mark 1:13: He was there in the wilderness forty days, &c.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4644/.
Chicago
Wesley, Charles. “Mark 1:13: He was there in the wilderness forty days, &c.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4644/.
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