Jesus, my Lord, I cry to thee

Jesus, my Lord, I cry to thee
Against the spirit unclean;
I want a constant liberty
A perfect rest from sin:
Expel the fiend out of my heart
By love’s almighty power,
Now, now command him to depart,
And never enter more.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.”—[Mark] ix. 25. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). 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 26.
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