Great God of hosts, against my foe
At thy command and cost I go,
Commission’d by thy word, engage
A just and holy war to wage:
And if I fight sustain’d by thee,
I must obtain the victory,
Must more than victory obtain,
And see my sins forever slain.
Great God of Hosts, against my foe
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “There fell down many slain, because the war was of God.”—[I. Chron.] v. 22. 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 200.
Publishing: Public Domain