A Christian, should I fly, or yield,
Arm’d by my heavenly Lord
With faith’s impenetrable shield,
And with his Spirit’s sword?
Let heathen shrink, and hirelings fly:
The champion of my God,
The conqueror of the world am I,
Thro’ my Redeemer’s blood.
A Christian, should I fly, or yield
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Should such a man as I flee?”—[Nehemiah] vi. 11. 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 224.
Publishing: Public Domain