God laughs at the designs of men
Against the work and will Divine:
Though zealous priests conspire again
And hand in hand the wicked join,
The counsel of our Lord shall stand,
And spread his love throughout the land.
God laughs at the designs of men
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But the high-priest came, and called the council together, and sent to the prison to have them brought.’—[Acts 5,] v. 21.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 300.
Publishing: Public Domain