Men in vain with fiends combine
Thy servants to withstand:
Can they match the rod divine
With the magician’s wand?
Truth prevails, and conquers all,
Like Aaron’s rod-devouring rod;
Sin, the world, and Satan fall
Before the church of God.
Men in vain with fiends combine
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.”—[Exod.] vii. 12. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 38.
Publishing: Public Domain