What say the false faint-hearted spies?
“Why should we make the world our foe?
Satan’s strong-holds that reach the skies
Can feeble flesh and blood o’erthrow?
The walls of our corruptions must,
’Till death demolish them, remain:
The ruin of all pride, all lust
The Lord hath promised us—in vain.”
What say the false faint-hearted spies?
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The people be strong, and the cities are walled and very great.”—[Num.] xiii. 28. 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 72.
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