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Hymns on God's Everlasting Love, Second Series, 12
From Hymns on God's Everlasting Love, Second Series (1742) · Osborn ed., vol. 3 (1869)
O God of all grace, All truth, and all power,
On Adam's lost race Thy benefits shower,
Thy boundless compassion To sinners make known,
And bring us salvation, And seal us Thine own.
Come down from above, Whose mercies abound,
Whose bowels of love Continually sound;
To every creature All-gracious Thou art,
All mercy Thy nature, All pity Thy heart.
O Saviour of all, Who didst not pass by
Or leave in his fall One sinner to die,
Gainst Satan's delusion We cry unto Thee,
O bring to confusion The hellish decree.
The stoical fiend Root out of our heart,
And bring to an end His magical art
Wherewith he bewitches, By forging Thy seal,
And horribly preaches Poor sinners to hell.
The simple and weak Pluck out of his net,
His covenant break, Bruise under our feet
The' electing deceiver; Destroy all his power,
And O that he never Might trouble us more!
Codex Note
Attributed to Charles Wesley; Osborn's edition does not distinguish the brothers
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