Who Jesus’ work resolves to do

Verse 1
Who Jesus’ work resolves to do
Will always contradiction meet,
In every age disputers new
Satan’s strong arguments repeat;
But all the hellish sophists yield
To one with heavenly wisdom fill’d.

Verse 2
Champion of God, in Jesus might,
In Jesus Spirit he goes on,
Single against a world to fight;
He treads their baffled reasons down,
And all th’ opposers of his Lord
Quells with the hammer of the word.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then there arose certain of the synagogue ... disputing with Stephen. And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spake.’—[Acts 6,] v. 9, 10.” 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 199.
Publishing: Public Domain