In vain, ye fearful, faithless spies,
Ye mis-report the land so good;
We stop our ears against your lies
“That sin can never be subdued.”
There’s no unconquerable sin:
If God lead forth his host to fight,
We may, we must the battle win,
And all o’ercome in Jesu’s might.
In vain, ye fearful, faithless spies
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “We be well able to overcome.”—[Num.] xiii. 30. 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 73.
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