“Witchcraft! Inchantment! Sorcery!
It never was, and ne’er can be!”
Thus saith the—wisdom of our age,
Superior to the sacred page,
And dares the law divine repeal,
And votes the tempter back to hell.
Witchcraft! enchantment! sorcery!
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The works of the flesh, are ... witchcraft, &c.”—[Gal.] v. 19, 20. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 66.
Publishing: Public Domain