Us, when our Lord the victory gives

Verse 1
Us, when our Lord the victory gives,
The tempter for a season leaves,
Our fears asleep to lay:
But let us, if his wiles we know,
Prepare for the returning foe,
And always watch and pray.

Verse 2
After we have affliction seen,
Sore buffetted by fiends and men,
And countless trials past,
Objects of God’s peculiar love
Our agonizing souls may prove
The fiercest fight at last.

Verse 3
Vouchsafe us, Lord, that humble fear
Of danger every moment near,
Ev’n when the fiend withdraws,
And let us always bear in mind
The bloody sweat is still behind,
The garden, and the cross.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from [him] for a season.’—[Luke 4,] v. 13.” 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 133.
Publishing: Public Domain