Jesus more than Conqueror
Of his thrice-battled foe,
Fill’d with his own Spirit’s power
Doth power on us bestow:
By his conquering Spirit led
We daily put the fiend to flight,
Foil thro’ our victorious Head,
And triumph in his might.
Jesus more than conqueror
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee.'—[Luke 4,] v. 14.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 134.
Publishing: Public Domain