Still to make our numbers less,
The world their wisdom try,
But the more the world oppress,
The more we multiply:
Tho’ to sin and Satan sold,
We soon to Christ their foe shall fall,
Fight against our masters old,
And more than conquer all.
Still to make our numbers less
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and join unto our enemies, and fight against us, &c.”—Exod. i. 10. 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 33.
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