Death and the grave their baleful power
Their dread commission to devour
In Eden’s garden first obtain’d,
And since o’re all mankind have reign’d:
Disarm’d they in a garden are,
O’recome their Conqueror’s strength declare,
Who doth to us the victory give,
Who died that all mankind may live.
Death and the grave their baleful power
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Now in the place where he was crucified, there was a garden.’—[John 19,] v. 41." This hymn appears in the 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. 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 92.
Publishing: Public Domain