Mark 5:9: Legion the true infernal name

Legion the true infernal name
Of him, who lost to virtuous shame
The slave of passion lives:
A multitude of passions rise,
And fill'd with one, he every vice
Into his heart receives.
866. He besought Him much that He would not, c. — v 10.
With sin we must entirely break.
No truce or composition seek,
But all occasions thy,
No commerce with our lusts maintain,
Or, when the foe's expell'd, remain
With the temptation nigh.