6019. Sin Has a Thousand Treacherous Arts

1. Sin has a thousand treacherous arts
To practice on the mind;
With flattering looks she tempts our hearts,
But leaves a sting behind.

2. With names of virtue she deceives
The agèd and the young;
And while the heedless wretch believes,
She makes his fetters strong.

3. She pleads for all the joys she brings,
And gives a fair pretense;
But cheats the soul of heav’nly things,
And chains it down to sense.

4. So on a tree divinely fair
Grew the forbidden food;
Our mother took the poison there
And tainted all her blood.

Text Information
First Line: Sin has a thousand treacherous arts
Title: Sin Has a Thousand Treacherous Arts
Author: Isaac Watts (1707)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707, number 150
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: REMSEN
Composer: Joseph Perry Holbrook (1862)
Meter: CM
Incipit: 53332 16143 33212
Key: A♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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