With the Omniscient Spirit filled

Verse 1
With th’ Omniscient Spirit fill’d
Who knows what is in man,
Paul perceives the fiend conceal’d
From mortal view in vain;
Looks with Jesus’ flaming eyes,
Which sin-consuming virtue dart,
Sees his heart without disguise,
His false, infernal heart.

Verse 2
Not with angry passion fir’d,
But holy, fervent zeal,
By his righteous Lord inspir’d
His judgments to reveal;
Paul rebukes in truth severe,
The power of Jesus to display,
Gives the wizard’s character,
And drags him into day.

Verse 3
Sharpness exercis’d on one
Is mercy shown to all,
Warns them of the pit unknown
Nor suffers them to fall;
Love of truth and innocence
Are to the Lamb’s Apostle given,
Justify his vehemence,
And prove his zeal from heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then Saul (who is also called Paul) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him, and said.’—[Acts 13,] v. 9. 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 275.
Publishing: Public Domain