So by the Spirit of holiness
Our Samson did himself release,
Burst all the bands of death, and rose
The conqueror of his shouting foes,
To slay by means contemptible,
And triumph o’er the hosts of hell.
So by the Spirit of holiness
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The Philistines shouted against him, and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, &c.”—[Judg.] xv. 14. 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 138.
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