The reign of sin and Satan cease
By power Divine expel’d,
When Jesus’ lips create my peace,
And speak my pardon seal’d:
I know thy kingdom is brought in,
Is surely fixt in me,
When fill’d with perfect hate of sin,
And love of purity.
The reign of sin and Satan cease
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘If I by the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.’—[Luke 11,] v. 20.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 129.
Publishing: Public Domain