Where is the boastful tyrant’s power

Verse 1
Where is the boastful tyrant’s power,
By wonders but confirm’d the more
In cruelty and pride!
Yet all his bloody search is vain,
He never can be found by man,
Whom God is pleas’d to hide.

Verse 2
Jesus from hell and earth, and sin,
Thou art a Place to hide me in,
My refuge sure Thou art
And sav’d, and clean escap’d away,
They never shall retake their prey
Or tear me from thy heart.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Herod sought for him, and found him not.’—[Acts 12,] v. 19.” 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 270.
Publishing: Public Domain