Sore assail’d, o’erpower’d, opprest

Sore assail’d, o’erpower’d, opprest
I in the battle cry:
Saviour, grant me my request;
Who on thy aid rely:
Weak, and helpless as I am,
Yet, Lord, I must victorious prove
Trusting in thy saving name,
Thy true almighty love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “They cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them, because they put their trust in him.”—[I. Chron.] v. 20. 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 200.
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