Condemn’d to die, of death afraid,
Our heavenly Joshua we address,
In rags of our own vileness clad,
Undone, if thou refuse us peace,
But if thy hand, thy word thou give,
We may, we shall for ever live.
Condemn’d to die, of death afraid
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them to let them live.”—[Joshua] ix. 15. 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 123.
Publishing: Public Domain