Strengthen’d by thy command
Against my wickedness,
Henceforth I every sin withstand
Thro’ thy sufficient grace:
I lay the sin aside
Which caus’d my frequent fall,
And wait to feel the blood applied
That cleanses me from all.
Strengthen’d by Thy command
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.”—Deut. xxiii. 9. 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 104.
Publishing: Public Domain