Religion

Obadiah: The elder serves the younger now

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 10 (1871)

Religion

The elder serves the younger now:
We who so long to sin did bow,
Its power defy, its yoke disdain:
The praying church, the wresthng seed,
On our old tyrant-lusts we tread.
And lords of all our passions reign:

In patience we our souls possess,
Ax 6. Jacob's house is fill'd with peace,
A peace which none can take away;
Obadiah ly — 21.
All things we have, of Christ possess'd,
And Jesus in our faithful breast
Maintains His everlasting sway.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Obadiah: The elder serves the younger now.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3784/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Obadiah: The elder serves the younger now.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3784/.

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