Religion
Numbers 13:28: What say the false faint-hearted spies
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 9 (1870)
Religion
What say the false faint-hearted spies?
"Why should we make the world our foe?
Satan's strongholds 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."
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Wesley, Charles. “Numbers 13:28: What say the false faint-hearted spies.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/2588/.
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