Empower’d through Moses’ hallowing hands

Verse 1
Impower’d thro’ Moses’ hallowing hands,
Aaron before the altar stands,
The consecrated priest of God!
Jesus his officers ordains:
And thus the Christian priest obtains
The gift by elders’ hands bestow’d.

Verse 2
Ye that uncall’d the power assume,
Expect the rebels’ fearful doom;
The pit its mouth hath open’d wide
For Jesu’s sacrilegious foes!
Repent before its mouth it close
On all the hard’ned sons of pride.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “No man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.”—[Heb.] v. 4. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 129.
Publishing: Public Domain