Hymnal: The Pilgrim's Song
Date: 1814
Compiler: Elias Smith
Publisher/Printer: Elias Smith
First Line: Come soldiers of Jesus your armour gird on
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Hymn Number: 2
Page Number: 004, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsCome soldiers of Jesus, your armour gird on;
Your Captain commands you, God's well belov'd Son;
He's unfurl'd his banner, in our happy land,
Come rally around it, ye cross bearing gand.
Throw by men's inventions, abide by God's word;
For Jesus is your Lawgiver, Master, and Lord;
His laws are not grievous, but righteous and good;
And we are his servants, the price of his blood.
O how has he wearied you, Christians declare;
Don't think it presumption his name for to bear;
The disciples at Antioch flourished and grew,
Not fettered by human invention like you.
O how has he wearied you, Christians declare;
Don't think it presumption his name for to hear;
The disciples at Antioch flourished and grew,
Not fettered by human invention like you.
O love one another, you Jesus command;
Unite with your voices, your hearts, and your hands,
Like an army with banners, you dreadful shall be;
The best of the aliens before you shall flee.
Bold Atheists and Deists shall then hide their face,
When Christians unite as dear children of grace;
The scorner, blasphemer, before you shall fall;
And sinners confounded, for mercy shall call.
Yet thousands dear Christians coaverted shall be;
The haughty gainsayers, themselves bow the knee;
Their weeping and crying shall reach to the clouds,
And poor bleeding Zion be swarming with crowds.
Then God's ancient people, the poor scatter'd Jews;
Who long have been exiles, no more shall refuse;
To own our dear Jesus, their promised king;
But fly and take shelter beneath his kind wing.
O then the Millennium, the long wish'd for day;
For which our great Master has taught us to pray;
Shall come and bring with it a kingdom below;
When every nation to Jesus shall bow.
Come children of God, you, for whom Christ has dy'd;
Come show that indeed you are on the Lord's side;
Throw by human creeds, appellations, and laws,
And live by the gospel and honor its cause.