Full oft thou hast my helper been,
When sorely by the world assail’d,
By Satan, and my bosom sin,
My goings, Lord, had well-nigh fail’d:
Thou hast, in honour of thy name,
Snatch’d me out of the lion’s teeth,
Pluck’d as a brand out of the flame,
And sav’d my soul from endless death.
Full oft Thou hast my helper been
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall, but the Lord was my help.”—[Psalm] cxviii. 13. 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 326.
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