Again, Thou Spirit of Burning come

Verse 1
Again, Thou Spirit of burning, come,
Thy last great office to fulfil,
To shew the hellish tyrant’s doom,
The hellish tyrant’s doom to seal,
To drive him from thy sacred shrine,
And fill our souls with life divine.

Verse 2
Of judgment now the world convince,
The end of Jesus coming show,
To sentence their usurping prince,
Him, and his works destroy below,
To finish and abolish sin,
And bring the heavenly nature in.

Verse 3
Who gauls the nations with his yoke,
And bruises with an iron rod,
And smites with a continual stroke,
The world’s fierce ruler and its god,
Wilt Thou not, Lord, from earth expel,
And chase the fiend to his own hell?

Verse 4
Yes, Thou shalt soon pronounce his doom,
Who rules in wrath the realms below,
That wicked One reveal, consume,
Avenge the nations of their foe,
In bright, vindictive lightning shine,
And slay him with the Breath Divine.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in Hymns of Petition and Thanksgiving For the Promise of the Father, published by John and Charles Wesley (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1746). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 4 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 189. Wesley later altered this hymn in his 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. He combined it in that manuscript with "Then the whole earth again shall rest"; however, it is least confusing to continue to list each as separate hymns.
Publishing: Public Domain