Vanquish’d by injurious ill

Verse 1
Vanquish’d by injurious ill
That we [may] never be,
Jesus, let thy followers feel
The love which is in Thee,
Love that turn’d the other cheek,
Love that earth and hell o’recame,
Love unconquerably meek,
Eternally the same.

Verse 2
Arm us with thy patient mind
Which pride and wrath controuls,
Then the foe shall never find
A way t’ afflict our souls,
Then to sin we shall not yield,
But evil overcome with good,
Keep the faith, and win the field
Resisting unto blood.

Verse 3
Now to every saint, and me
That perfect good impart:
Thus we gain the victory
By the meek, loving heart
Thus we bear th’ opposers down,
Till vanquish’d at thy feet they fall
Forc’d th’ omnipotence to own
Of Love that died for all.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.’—[Rom.] 12:21.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” 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 1977/576, 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 19.
Publishing: Public Domain