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Luke 15:15: Ykt more and more abandon'd still
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 11 (1871)
Ykt more and more abandon'd still
He hires himself at Satan's will
To serve the fiend's design;
And lo, the tempter's instrument
To theatres and gardens sent,
He feeds the devil's swine.
He spends his strength the world to please,
In sin's most sordid services
Obeys his cruel lord,
A labourer in his vineyard lives,
Death all the wages he receives
And hell his whole reward.
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Wesley, Charles. “Luke 15:15: Ykt more and more abandon'd still.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5276/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Luke 15:15: Ykt more and more abandon'd still.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5276/.
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