Who arm’d with Christ’s commission goes,
The world’s fierce enmity to prove,
Will nothing to their rage oppose,
But meekness, innocence, and love:
Tis thus we make the gospel known,
The wonders wrought by Jesus’ name,
And force the wolves themselves to own
“A Christian is a perfect lamb.”
Who arm’d with Christ’s commission goes
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves.’—[Matt. 10,] v. 16.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 236.
Publishing: Public Domain