Faith, which when it comes, sets free

Verse 1
Faith, which when it comes, sets free
And purifies the heart,
Doth not perfect purity
And light at once impart;
Errors and mistakes remain,
And various prepossessions blind:
Purg’d by Christ from every stain
We know not all his mind.

Verse 2
Justified thro’ faith alone,
We may in Babel dwell,
May in words the truth disown,
Which in our hearts we feel,
Still, as sav’d by works and grace,
To Moses and his law incline,
Add our human righteousness
To righteousness Divine.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And there rose up certain of the Pharisees which believed, saying &c.’—[Acts 15,] v. 5.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 296.
Publishing: Public Domain