To’ elude His wonders and suppress

Verse 1
T’ elude his wonders and suppress,
T’ o’rethrow his merciful design,
Who now revives his work of grace,
The world in fruitless counsel join;
Their counsel vain shall never stand,
Or shorten an Almighty Hand.

Verse 2
Jehovah sends by whom he will,
His grace in season due bestows:
Who now the chair of Moses fill,
Confederate with your Saviour’s foes,
Ye cannot stop the growing word,
Or bind that Spirit of the Lord.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves.’—[Acts 4,] v. 15.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 175.
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