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Mark 5:7, 5: Yet still the sin to which he cleaves
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 10 (1871)
Yet still the sin to which he cleaves,
Not without violence he leaves
And nature's sorest pain;
As dreading to be dispossess'd,
The fiend he harbours in his breast,
And hugs the tyrant's chain.
But Jesus by a sinner seen
Will never bear the spirit unclean
Should in His presence stay:
The powerful word He speaks alone,
The demon foul He bids begone.
And Legion must obey.
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Wesley, Charles. “Mark 5:7, 5: Yet still the sin to which he cleaves.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4720/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Mark 5:7, 5: Yet still the sin to which he cleaves.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4720/.
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