The Cyber Hymnal ‎#6019

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