The Preacher doth not all condemn
Who justly wage defensive wars,
But shows, Salvation is for them,
If, compast with ten thousand snares,
They dare their calling’s sins eschew,
From avarice and ambition fly,
To God, their king and country true,
And bold for Christ to live, or die.
The preacher doth not all condemn
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He said unto the soldiers, Do violence to no man &c.'—[Luke 3,] v. 14.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 127.
Publishing: Public Domain