Impotent attempt and vain

Verse 1
Impotent attempt and vain
Satan from his house t’ expel!
Used, usurp’d by daring man
Jesus’ Name will not avail,
Nothing by itself can do;
Jesus Spirit the power supplies:
Satan mocks a faithless Jew,
All the synagogue defies.

Verse 2
Jesus who divinely know
We his name employ aright,
Confident therein, o’rethrow
All the potentates of night:
Jesus, to the faithful race
Arm’d with thy great Spirit’s power
Satan and his host give place,
Fly their ancient Conqueror.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Certain Jews took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits, the name of the Lord Jesus &c.’—[Acts 19,] v. 13." 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 360.
Publishing: Public Domain