Forth against all the world he goes

Verse 1
Forth against all the world he goes
Whom Christ vouchsafes to chuse,
The Gentile ignorance t’ oppose,
The stubbornness of Jews;
War with the rich he dares proclaim
On pride and grandeur fall,
And thro’ the power of Jesus name
He more than conquers all.

Verse 2
Master, if me Thou canst employ,
Thy poorest messenger,
Ev’n I the tidings of great joy
Before the world declare:
The name which sure salvation brings
I live to testify
To heathens, pharisees, and kings,
And in the service die.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He is a chosen vessel, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel.’—[Acts 9,] v. 15.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 237.
Publishing: Public Domain