The host is now gone forth: to fly;
Or fight? To conquer; or to die?
O let us cast our sins away,
That God may hear his servants pray,
May us with more than conquest bless,
With glorious and eternal peace.
The host is now gone forth: to fly
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.”—[Deut.] xxiii. 9. 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 104.
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