Text:Get Thee Behind Us, Fiend
Author (attributed to):Charles Wesley
Tune:GÖTTINGEN
Composer:Anonymous

11468. Get Thee Behind Us, Fiend

1 Get thee behind us, fiend,
With all thy baffled art!
The sheep we know Thou canst not rend,
Unless Thou first canst part:
Jesus His ten-fold power
His saints assembled claim:
Tremble, thou fiend, and fly before
Our mighty captain’s name.

2 Thy wisdom from below
Full well we understand;
Disperse, and then our souls o’erthrow,
Divide us, and command:
But Jesus still shall hold
And keep us safe from harms,
Together lodged within His fold,
His everlasting arms.

3 While in our shepherd’s breast
Our helpless souls we hide,
No devils can disturb our rest,
Nor can the world divide:
To build each other up
We now in Jesus join,
And who shall burst the bond, or stop
The intercourse divine?

4 This God hath bid us do,
And man forbids in vain;
Ye never, never can break through
Love’s adamantine chain:
Joined by the Savior’s will,
The same in mind and heart,
Ye may afflict us here, and kill,
But ye can never part.

5 Resolved our Lord t’obey,
In spite of man’s command,
Together in the ancient way
Through His support we stand:
Nor will we hence remove,
Till all triumphant rise
And meet the first-born Church above,
Assembled in the skies.

Text Information
First Line: Get thee behind us, fiend
Title: Get Thee Behind Us, Fiend
Author (attributed to): Charles Wesley
Meter: SMD
Language: English
Source: Hymns for Times of Trouble and Persecution by John and Charles Wesley (London: Strahan, 1744)
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: GÖTTINGEN
Composer: Anonymous (before 1890)
Meter: SMD
Key: g minor
Copyright: Public Domain



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