Ye that all your powers exert

Verse 1
Ye that all your powers exert
The gospel to gainsay,
Jesus doctrine to pervert,
And mock his perfect way:
Ye that seek our faith t’ o’rethrow,
Who in his blood redemption feel,
Leagued with our malicious foe,
Ye serve the cause of hell.

Verse 2
Full of Satan’s subtlety
Ye all his arts employ,
With the felon old agree
Who would our souls destroy:
Children of that Wicked one
Your father’s deeds ye gladly do,
Slander whom ye have not known,
And lie, and murther too.

Verse 3
Haters of all righteousness
Haters of Christ, ye are:
Judgments on your souls shall seize,
If still his wrath ye dare;
God shall strike your spirits blind,
And leave in nature’s penal chains,
Earnest of the wrath behind,
And hell’s eternal pains.

Verse 4
Turn, while grace may yet be found,
Accept a Guide from heaven,
Grace doth more than sin abound,
To every sinner given:
Seek, thou infidel, and find,
The glorious Sun in Jesus see,
Him who shines on all mankind,
And offers faith to thee.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘O full of subtilty &c.’—[Acts 13,] v. 10, 11.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 351-52.
Publishing: Public Domain