Arm’d with Jesu’s two-edg’d sword
We now his charge fulfil,
All th’ inhabitants abhor’d
Of cursed Canaan kill;
Mercy, Lord, we will not shew,
But execute thy righteous mind,
Root and branch destroy the foe,
Nor leave a sin behind.
Arm’d with Jesu’s two-edged sword
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “We utterly destroyed them, men, women, and children.”—Deut. iii. 6. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 90.
Publishing: Public Domain