Introduction
Words: Charles Wesley, Short Hymns (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762), Volume 2, number 1293, alt.
Music: St. Agnes John B. Dykes, in Hymnal for Use in the English Church, by John Grey, 1866 (🔊 pdf nwc).
O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not fear to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand.
Daniel 3:16–17
Words: Charles Wesley, Short Hymns (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762), Volume 2, number 1293, alt.
Music: St. Agnes John B. Dykes, in Hymnal for Use in the English Church, by John Grey, 1866 (🔊 pdf nwc).
O for the faith in Jesu’s name
Which tyrants can despise,
Which triumphs o’er the threatening flame
And all its rage defies.
Calm it replies with resolute scorn
To furious cruelty,
My body tear, or rack, or burn,
Ye cannot injure me.