Who first convers’d with Christ by night,
Defends him now in open day,
Arm’d by the word of Jesus might
The malice of his foes to stay,
He quells them with resistless zeal,
And baffles all the rage of hell.
Who first conversed with Christ by night
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Nicodemus saith unto them (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them).’—[John 7,] v. 50." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 412.
Publishing: Public Domain