Who can defeat the Saviour’s plan

Who can defeat the Saviour’s plan,
Or traverse his designs of love?
The surest means employ’d by man
Shall vain and unsuccesful prove,
That all his baffled foes may own
Wisdom and Power is Christ alone.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.’—[Acts 5,] v. 23.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 300.
Publishing: Public Domain