Son of God, thine anger shew
Against our foes and thine,
Manifested here below
Fulfil thine own design,
Satan’s reign and works to end
Thine own almighty grace employ,
Thrust him out, this inbred fiend,
And all our sins destroy.
Son of God, Thine anger shew
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.”—[1 John] iii. 8. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 204.
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