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Luke 8:27: The slave to nature's filthy sin
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 11 (1871)
The slave to nature's filthy sin
(Fit mansion for the spirit unclean)
Bewrays his foulest shame.
Wanders a phrenitic possess'd,
A furious diabolic beast,
And Legion is his name.
Stripp'd of his Maker's character,
Of virtuous sense and modest fear,
Far from himself he roams,
Far from the eye of man he flies,
Delights in rottenness and vice.
And dwells among the tombs.
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Wesley, Charles. “Luke 8:27: The slave to nature's filthy sin.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5144/.
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