The power is on the man bestow’d,
Not on the one eternal God:
And every messenger of thine,
Cloath’d with authority divine,
Proclaims the world thro’ thee forgiven,
Thee the great Lord of earth and heaven.
The power is on the Man bestow’d
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “All power is given unto me.”—[Matt.] xxviii. 18. 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 440.
Publishing: Public Domain