Religion
Acts 12:19: Where is the boastful tyrant's power
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 12 (1872)
Where is the boastful tyrant's power
By wonders but confinn'd the mure
In cruelty and pride!
Yet all his bloody search is vain,
He never can be found by man,
Whom God is pleased to hide.
Jesus, from hell and earth, and sin,
Thou art a place to hide me in,
My refuge sure Thou art;
And saved and clean escaped away,
They never shall retake their prey,
Or tear me from Thy heart.
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Wesley, Charles. “Acts 12:19: Where is the boastful tyrant's power.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/6407/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Acts 12:19: Where is the boastful tyrant's power.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/6407/.
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