Tis now the woman’s heavenly seed

Verse 1
Tis now the woman’s heavenly Seed
Begins to bruise the serpent’s head,
T’ avenge us of our foe:
But Jesus bleeding on the tree
Compleats his glorious victory,
And gives the mortal blow.

Verse 2
Full of the Holy Ghost He comes,
Provokes the fiend, nor yet presumes
Who in himself confides,
By the almighty Spirit led;
Who all that in his footsteps tread
To certain conquest guides.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness.'—[Luke 4,] v. 1.” 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 130.
Publishing: Public Domain