By faith accounted just,
By faith to God we live,
With patience wait his time, and trust
His fulness to receive;
That finish’d holiness
We must at last obtain:
And faith shall then in vision cease,
And love triumphant reign.
By faith accounted just
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The just shall live by his faith.”—[Hab.] ii. 4. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 102.
Publishing: Public Domain