Olney Hymns (1840)/Book 1/Hymn 40

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40.
More with us than with them.—2 Kings, vi, 16.

1 Alas! Elisha's servant cried,
When he the Syrian army spied;
But he was soon released from care,
In answer to the prophet's prayer.

2 Straightway he saw, with other eyes,
A greater army from the skies,—
A fiery guard around the hill;
Thus are the saints preserved still.

3 When Satan and his host appear,
Like him of old, I faint and fear;
Like him, by faith, with joy I see
A greater host engaged for me.

4 The saints espouse my cause by pray'r,
The angels make my soul their care;
Mine is the promise seal'd with blood,
And Jesus lives to make it good.

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