Accomplishing his gracious word
By all his holy prophets spoke,
The Lord hath sent us Christ the Lord,
To bruise our foe, and burst his yoke,
From sin and death to set us free,
And slay our last great enemy.
Accomplishing his gracious word
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets ... that we should be saved from our enemies &c.'—[Luke 1,] v. 70, 71.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 78.
Publishing: Public Domain