The devils that reign
In the children of men,
From an infidel’s heart,
Till a stronger arrive, they will never depart:
But when Jesus draws near,
In their palace they fear,
And horribly cry,
And expel’d by his word from their Conqueror fly.
The devils that reign
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Devils also came out of many, crying out.’—[Luke 4,] v. 41.” 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 138.
Publishing: Public Domain