Away with our fears, Th’ Almighty Appears

Verse 1
Away with our fears!
The Almighty appears
Our Captain and Head!
We are all to infallible victory led:
He hath singly subdued
The world with their god,
And he bids us “Pursue,”
And He speaks to our hearts “I have conquer’d for you![”]

Verse 2
In his Spirit alone,
We are bold to go on,
His victory share,
And by patience o’recome the afflictions we bear:
No storms of distress
Can ruffle our peace,
While we aim at the prize,
And on Jesus his cross to his kingdom arise.

Verse 3
Our implacable foe
We daily o’rethrow,
To the evils submit,
And the goods upon earth we tread under our feet;
With Jesus endure,
Till for glory mature
Our souls we resign,
And ascend, to partake of the triumph Divine.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good chear, I have overcome the world.’—John 16, v. 33." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School.
Publishing: Public Domain