3 Now he persuades, “How easy ’tis
“To walk the road to heaven;”
Anon he swells our sins, and cries,
“They cannot be forgiven.”

4 [He bids young sinners, “Yet forbear
“To think of God or death;
“For prayer and devotion are
“But melancholy breath.”

5 He tells the aged, “They must die,
“And ’tis too late to pray;
“In vain for mercy now they cry,
“For they have lost their day.”]

6 Thus he supports his cruel throne
By mischief and deceit;
And drags the sons of Adam down
To darkness and the pit.

7 Almighty God, cut short his power,
Let him in darkness dwell;
And, that he vex the earth no more,
Confine him down to hell.

Hymn 2:157. 
The same.

1 Now Satan comes with dreadful roar,
And threatens to destroy;
He worries whom he can’t devour
With a malicious joy.

2 Ye sons of God, oppose his rage,
Resist, and he’ll be gone;
Thus did our dearest Lord engage
And vanquish him alone.

3 Now he appears almost divine
Like innocence and love,
But the old serpent lurks within
When he assumes the dove.

4 Fly from the false deceiver’s tongue,
Ye Sons of Adam, fly;
Our parents found the snare too strong,
Nor should the children try.

Hymn 2:158. 
Few saved; or, The almost Christian,
the hypocrite, and apostate.

1 Broad is the road that leads to death,
And thousands walk together there;
But wisdom shews a narrower path,
With here and there a traveller.

2 “Deny thyself, and take thy cross,”
Is the Redeemer’s great command;
Nature must count her gold but dross
If she would gain this heavenly land.

3 The fearful soul that tires and faints,
And walks the ways of God no more,
Is but esteem’d almost a saint,
And makes his own destruction sure.

4 Lord, let not all my hopes be vain;
Create my heart entirely new,
Which hypocrites could ne’er attain,
Which false apostates never knew.

Hymn 2:159. 
An unconverted state;
or, Converting grace.

1 [Great King of Glory and of grace,
We own with humble shame,
How vile is our degenerate race,
And our first father’s name.]

2 From Adam flows our tainted blood,
The poison reigns within,
Makes us averse to all that’s good,
And willing slaves to sin.

3 [Daily we break thy holy laws,
And then reject thy grace;
Engag’d in the old serpent’s cause
Against our Maker’s face.]

4 We live estrang’d afar from God,
And love the distance well;
With haste we run the dangerous road
That leads to death and hell.

5 And can such rebels be restor’d? 
Such natures made divine? 
Let sinners see thy glory, Lord,
And feel this power of thine.

6 We raise our Father’s name on high,
Who his own Spirit sends
To bring rebellious strangers nigh,
And turn his foes to friends.