The true believer’s challenge hear

Verse 1
The true believer’s challenge hear,
Who loudly dost thy faith profess,
Now let it, without works, appear,
Thine inward principle express,
Or humbled own it cannot be,
And saving faith is not in thee.

Verse 2
My works the sure credentials are
Of faith divine on me bestow’d,
My faith I by my works declare,
And give the praise of both to God,
And thus the author’s glory shew,
Who works in me to will and do.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.”—[James] ii. 18. 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 169.
Publishing: Public Domain