An hellish sorcerer may seize
Honors Divine, to charm the croud;
Of Christ alone his church confess,
“This Man is the great Power of God!”
An hellish sorcerer may seize
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘To whom they all gave heed, saying, This man is the great power of God.’—[Acts 8,] v. 10.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 319.
Publishing: Public Domain