Able to break th’ infernal band,
And blast the plots of earth and hell,
He let their direful counsel stand,
And Satan over God prevail:
Holy, and just, and wise, and good,
T’ abolish sin, He sin employs,
Lays down our ransom in his blood,
And death thro’ his own death destroys.
Able to break the’ infernal band
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He sought how he might conveniently betray him.’—[Mark 14,] v. 11.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 71.
Publishing: Public Domain