The power is not revok’d, or lost,
Which Christ did on his church bestow:
Satan is still with all his host
Trod down by those that Jesus know:
Yes Lord, the whole serpentine brood,
The scorpions swarming from that pit
Are by thy bloody cross subdued,
Are bruis’d beneath thy people’s feet.
The power is not revoked or lost
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy.'—[Luke 10,] v. 19.” 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 193.
Publishing: Public Domain