Who is this that sin forgives

Verse 1
Who is this that sin forgives?
A meer, mortal, sinful man,
Who his power from Rome receives,
Forms, and absolutions vain?
No: the power is God’s alone;
God it is that justifies,
He who did for sins atone,
He the precious grace applies.

Verse 2
Who is this that sin forgives,
Now as yesterday the same?
Ask the sinner that believes,
Well he knows his Saviour’s name:
Jesus bought the peace with blood,
Our infallible High-priest,
Jesus is our pardning God,
God supreme, forever blest!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Who is this that forgiveth sins?’—[Luke 7,] v. 49.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 168.
Publishing: Public Domain