Thro’ faith our friends we bring to thee,
(Ourselves by Satan long possest)
Pity and set the captives free,
Drive the foul fiend out of their breast,
The world and sin thyself expel,
And in their souls forever dwell.
Through faith our friends we bring to thee
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Bring him hither to me.”—[Matt.] xvii. 17. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 310.
Publishing: Public Domain