Power, wisdom, learning all combine,
Churchmen and seculars agree,
To frustrate, Lord, thy love’s design,
And stop the men sent forth by Thee:
But lo, by all the world forsook,
Like those who first thy grace made known,
With stronger confidence we look
For promis’d help to Thee alone.
Power, wisdom, learning all combine
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Their rulers and scribes and elders ... were gathered together.’—[Acts 4,] v. 5, 6.” 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 170.
Publishing: Public Domain