Ye, who the name of Jesus take

Verse 1
Ye, who the name of Jesus take,
But will not all your sins forsake,
May well the rage of Satan fear,
And fly from the old murtherer:
The tempter first by guile prevails,
With terror then his slaves assails:
And if your souls in hell he tear,
Ye never can escape him there.

Verse 2
Naked of Christ ye now are found,
And bleeding with your desperate wound:
But turn to Him who pardon gives,
And naked, wounded souls receives:
Then, when He doth the grace bestow,
With stedfast faith resist the foe,
On Jesus’ powerful Name rely,
And see the prince of darkness fly!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The man in whom the evil spirit was, leapt on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.’—[Acts 19,] v. 16." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 392.
Publishing: Public Domain