What thou hast spoke I have not done;
Yet Jesus takes the sinner’s part,
With me, in thy beloved Son,
Well pleas’d, and reconcil’d thou art:
My God in Christ the sinner’s friend,
Thou wilt my sure defender be,
Wilt with my stronger foes contend,
And more than conquer all for me.
What Thou hast spoke I have not done
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “If thou shalt indeed do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to thine enemies.”—[Exod.] xxiii. 22. 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 53.
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