Spirit of faith, come down on me,
For where thou art is liberty,
Thy presence looses all my bands,
And melts the fetters from my hands,
Consumes like flax, the cords of sin,
And burns up all my foes within.
Spirit of faith, come down on me
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The Philistines shouted against him, and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, &c.”—Judg. xv. 14. 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 138.
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