Devils must at Christ’s command

Devils must at Christ’s command
Out of the soul remove:
Christ himself will not withstand
Our humble faith and love:
Lord, thou dost on sinners still
Our humble faith and love bestow,
Then the saving promise seal,
And all thy mercy show.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He said unto her, For this saying go thy way, the devil is gone out of thy daughter.’—[Mark 7,] v. 29.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 7.
Publishing: Public Domain