An advocate the sinner needs

An Advocate the sinner needs,
And Christ the just for us declares,
Our desperate cause by silence pleads,
Our long-lost innocence repairs,
Refusing to defend his own,
He clears us at his Father’s throne.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But he held his peace, and answered nothing.’—[Mark 14,] v. 61.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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 80.
Publishing: Public Domain