Religion
Mark 2:15: As Jesus sat at meat in his house, &c
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 10 (1871)
Lord, if I have indeed beheved.
And Thee into my heart received.
Amidst the sinful crowd
O let me never blush to own
My Master, by the world unknown,
My Saviour and my God,
O may I never dare despise
The most abandon'd slaves of vice,
Or scorn their company.
But humble love for sinners show.
And prove my own conversion true,
By turning them to Thee.
Not to the just, but sinners sent,
I bid them in Thy name repent,
Thy following joy to prove:
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MLA
Wesley, Charles. “Mark 2:15: As Jesus sat at meat in his house, &c.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4664/.
Chicago
Wesley, Charles. “Mark 2:15: As Jesus sat at meat in his house, &c.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4664/.
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