198 Soldiers of Christ, Arise
Charles Wesley, 1707-88
For comments on Charles Wesley see Hymn 6.
“The Whole Armor of God” is the title of this hymn in Wesley’s Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749. It is based on Ephesians 6:10-18: “Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil,” etc. The entire poem contains 16 double stanzas, of which our hymn is a selection of the first, second, and sixteenth.
MUSIC. DIADEMATA. For comments on this tune see Hymn 118.