Lord, throughout our evil day

Verse 1
Lord, throughout our evil day
Thy guardian grace bestow,
Constant power to watch and pray
Against our threefold foe,
Lest we let the tempter in,
No longer by thy strength with-held,
Parly with the world and sin,
And cast away our shield.

Verse 2
Thou who gav’st the word to all,
To us thy Spirit give,
Ceaseless then on Thee we call,
In Thee we walk and live,
Enter that celestial rest,
(If watching by our Master found)
With thy endless blessing blest,
And with thy glory crown’d.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Watch ye.’—[1 Cor.] 16:13.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” 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 1977/576, 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 40.
Publishing: Public Domain