All-conquering King

Verse 1
All-conquering King,
Thy Triumph we sing,
Redeem’d from the Foe
We publish our mighty Redeemer below;
The Omnipotent Name
Of Jesus proclaim,
And joyfully raise
Our Voices and Hearts in a Consort of Praise.

Verse 2
From the Malice of Men
Thou hast sav’d us again,
And broken the Snare
And scatter’d the Folk that delighted in War:
Athirst for our Blood
In Ambush they stood,
Our Lives to surprize,
And hurry us hence to our Friends in the Skies.

Verse 3
The Idolatrous Priest
Their Purpose had blest,
And arm’d with his Seal,
And inspir’d with the tenderest Mercies of Hell,
They rush’d on their Prey,
The Victims to slay,
And accomplish their Doom,
And offer us up to the Moloch of Rome.

Verse 4
But GOD on the Throne
Protected His own,
The Danger to ward
He planted around an Angelical guard.
Their Wings were outspread,
And cover’d our Head,
Their Arms were beneath,
And bore us aloft from the Weapons of Death.

Verse 5
All Glory to GOD,
All Honour and Laud
To our Conquering King,
Whom Lord of the Heavenly Armies we sing;
His Servants are Ours,
The Angelical Powers,
And now they attend,
And assist in the Consort that never shall end.

Verse 6
With Angels above
We sing of thy Love,
With Saints in the Vale
Thy unsearchable Riches of Mercy we tell
Till admitted among
The Glorified Throng
We look on thy Face,
And Eternity spend in a Rapture of Praise.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “After our Deliverance at Athlone.” This hymn appears in the mid-1750s manuscript “MS Richmond.” 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 1977/551, 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. 8 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 394.
Publishing: Public Domain