When Satan rules the simple heart

Verse 1
When Satan rules the simple heart,
Jesus alone can drive him thence:
Jesus, thy Spirit’s power exert,
Bring in thy love’s omnipotence,
The fiend’s out of my soul to chase,
And plant thy kingdom in its place.

Verse 2
The strong man arm’d this moment bind,
The bold usurper of thy throne,
His armour seize, the carnal mind,
The unbelieving heart of stone,
Out of my flesh the evil tear,
And pluck my soul out of the snare.

Verse 3
My soul redeem’d from Satan’s toils
Now for thy lawful captive claim,
Stir up thy strength and take the spoils,
Thy double property I am,
Mark’d with thy name, the goods are thine,
Thy work, and bought with blood Divine.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘No man can enter into a strong man’s house and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man, and then he will spoil his goods.’—[Mark 3,] v. 27.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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 469.
Publishing: Public Domain