Well the bodily possession

Verse 1
Well the bodily possession
Doth our inward state explain,
While the fiend with fierce oppression
Tears the tortur’d soul of man;
Then the word alone can ease us,
Gospel of redeeming grace,
Pardon in the name of Jesus
Drives the foe to his own place.

Verse 2
When the word his blood applying
Seals forgiveness on my heart,
Spirits foul with horror crying
From their old abode depart;
Ransom’d from my dire tormentor,
I my Lord and God adore:
Legion now no more shall enter,
Pride shall vex my soul no more.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them.’—[Acts 8,] v. 7.” 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 222.
Publishing: Public Domain