A plain indisputable case

Verse 1
A plain, indisputable case!
Once upon earth there witchcraft was
A compact with the hellish foe,
“But seventeen hundred years ago,
“In Asia, not in Europe, made;
“The fiend hath here forgot his trade.

Verse 2
“The Christian world is wiser grown,
“And lets his works and him alone;
“Full license is indulg’d to all;
“Both high and low, both great and small,
“Who weakly thought his worship evil,
“May safely now adore the devil![”]

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘There was a certain man, called Simon, which before time in the same city used sorcery &c.”—[Acts 8,] v. 9.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 319. Verse 1 was published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 222.
Publishing: Public Domain