"Tread down Thy foes, with power control / The beast and devil in my soul."
Hymn CXXVIII [from A Collection of Hymns]
At least 14 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1780, 1781, 1782, 1784, 1786, 1788, 1791, 1793, 1795, 1797).<br>
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Collected as early as 1780 in <u>A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists.</u> (London: Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundry, 1780). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T28513">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Also located in an ECCO search: titled "Hymn 128" in <u>A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists. by the Rev. John Wesley, A. M. Late Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford. A New Edition.</u> (London:,  1795). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3319012894&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from <u>The Poetical works of John and Charles Wesley</u>, Ed. G. Osborn, 13 vols. (London: The Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868). &lt;<a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007432022">Link to Hathi Trust</a>&gt; [Hymn is there titled "Galatians III. 22." -- First line: "Jesu, the sinners friend, to thee"]