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Text:Let Earth And Hell Their Powers Employ
Author:Charles Wesley
Tune:YORK
Media:MIDI file

4485. Let Earth And Hell Their Powers Employ

1 Let earth and hell their powers employ,
A sure defense we have:
They are not nearer to destroy
Than Jesus is to save.

2 And if it serve Thy glory, Thou
Shalt pluck us from the flame,
Our God in ages past, and now,
And evermore the same.

Text Information
First Line: Let earth and hell their powers employ
Title: Let Earth And Hell Their Powers Employ
Author: Charles Wesley
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: Short Hymns on Select Passages of Holy Scripture (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762)
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: YORK
Meter: CM
Key: F Major or modal
Source: Scottish Psalter, 1615
Copyright: Public Domain



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