Who sends His servants forth by pairs

Verse 1
Who sends his servants forth by pairs,
To make his power and goodness known,
Thus to their successors declares
That two are better far than one,
And wills the preachers in his name
To think, and speak, and live the same.

Verse 2
The force of unity divine
Nor men nor devils can oppose;
If Jesus’ love our spirits join,
We trample on our hellish foes,
And spoil Abaddon of his crown,
And turn his kingdom upside down.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He began to send them forth by two and two, and gave them power over unclean spirits.’—[Mark 6,] v. 7.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 493.
Publishing: Public Domain