An advocate in heaven we have,
Who pleads for Israel’s faithful race;
And God shall to the utmost save
The souls for whom our prophet prays:
From sin, the world, and Satan’s powers
He now doth to our rescue come,
And when the greedy tomb devours,
Redeems us from the greedy tomb.
An Advocate in heaven we have
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Cease not to cry unto the Lord our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.”—[I. Sam.] vii. 8. 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 155.
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