Surely the worldly god

Verse 1
Surely the worldly god
Was by a Stronger bound,
When the loud cry of blood
Did thro’ the city sound
The place, where Satan reign’d alone,
Till Jesus preach’d o’return’d his throne.

Verse 2
The same Almighty Hand
Doth now restrain the foe,
While at our Lord’s command
His bleeding cross we show,
Assembled with his people meet,
And teach, where Satan keeps his seat.

Verse 3
Thus may we still improve
The precious time of rest,
And preach the Saviour’s love
That all with pardon blest
May know, and imitate the Lamb,
And truly bear the Christian Name.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘A whole year they &c.’—[Acts 11,] v. 26.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 346.
Publishing: Public Domain