I the good fight have fought

I the good fight have fought. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). On 2 Timothy 4: 7, the stanzas that make up this hymn were first published separately in Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (Bristol, 1762). Its customary form is that of John Wesley*’s A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the people called Methodists (1780), in which he took two 8-line stanzas and printed them as four 4-line stanzas. Both came from the same verse in 2 Timothy: they formed no. 665 and no. 667 in 1762: 665. I have fought a good fight. –iv.7.   “I the good fight have fought,”   O when shall I declare! The victory by my Saviour got   I long, with Paul, to share:   O might I triumph so,   When all my...

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