Not like the warring sons of men,
With shouts and garments roll’d in blood,
Our Captain doth the fight maintain;
But lo! The burning Spirit of God
Kindles within a secret fire,
And all our sins, as smoke, expire.
Not like the warring sons of men
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Every battle of the warrior is with confused noise and garments rolled in blood, but this shall be with burning and fewel of fire.”—[Isa.] ix. 5. 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 381.
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