What have devils to do with Thee?
Thou didst not their nature take:
Cloth’d with our humanity,
Us thy hallow’d mansion make:
That thy mind in me may dwell
Partner of my flesh Thou art;
All the adverse powers expel,
Fill thyself my loving heart.
What have devils to do with Thee?
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘What have we to do with thee?’—[Matt. 8,] v. 29.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 218.
Publishing: Public Domain