Soldiers of Christ, arise

Soldiers of Christ, arise. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published with the title ‘The Whole Armour of God’ at the conclusion of John Wesley*’s tract The Character of a Methodist (Bristol, 1742, first and second editions only), although there is an undated broadsheet in the British Library dated ca. 1740-1749 which may predate the 1742 text. An early manuscript copy survives, in the hand of Charles Wesley and a scribe (Baker, 1962, p. 388). It was first printed in a hymnbook in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749). This is a long poem in sixteen 8-line DSM stanzas. John Wesley* included twelve in his 1780 Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists, dividing them into...

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