The omnipotent God

Verse 1
The omnipotent God
Thro’ his love shed abroad
Doth extraordinary messengers send,
And He arms us with grace,
Whom he pleases to raise
Against error and sin to contend.

Verse 2
The Jews we convince,
Who are proud of their sins
Which they virtue and righteousness call:
By the Spiritual sword,
By the power of the word
We confound them, in presence of all.

Verse 3
In Jesus his name
We forgiveness proclaim;
And his witnessing Spirit He gives:
From the scriptures we show,
He who suffer’d below
Is the God that eternally lives.

Verse 4
The Anointed of God,
The great Prophet bestow’d
On a wilfully ignorant race,
True faith He imparts,
And instructs our dull hearts
By the light and the unction of grace.

Verse 5
Our Priest we declare,
Thro’ whose blood and whose prayer
We are pardon’d, and perfect in one;
Our King we extol,
Who presides over all,
And vouchsafes us a share of his throne.

Verse 6
Priest, Prophet, and King,
He his kingdom doth bring,
With his Wisdom and Peace from above;
And who Jesus receive,
Priests, prophets, we live,
And we reign in the Spirit of love!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the Scriptures, that Jesus was the Christ.’—[Acts 18,] v. 28." 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 388-89.
Publishing: Public Domain