The poor wayfaring man

Verse 1
The poor, wayfaring man,
Inlighten’d from above,
Doth valiantly the truth maintain,
And more than conqueror prove;
The Man who nothing knows
But Jesus on his side
Withstands an host of learned foes,
And baffles all their pride.

Verse 2
Learning and power contend
Against the truth in vain,
Whoe’er the cause of Christ defend
The vict’ry must obtain:
For still the truth of God
Doth in its witness fight,
Confounds the unbelieving croud,
And puts the world to flight.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The man answered, Why herein is a marvellous thing &c.’—[John 9,] v. 30." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 448.
Publishing: Public Domain