Verse 1
Before my judge severe,
O how shall I appear!
Stranger to his saving grace,
Guilty and unholy I,
Banish’d from his glorious face,
Must I not for ever die?

Verse 2
Answer to God for me
The man on Calvary!
Pleader of my desperate cause,
He hath paid the debt I owe,
Bought my pardon on the cross,
Died himself to save his foe.

Verse 3
His death to thee I shew,
Thou righteous God and true;
In arrest of judgment, plead
Jesus, crush’d beneath my load:
I no other ransom need,
Speaks for me the sprinkled blood!

Verse 4
His blood from every sin
Shall make my nature clean:
Faith if in his blood I have,
All my sins are wash’d away;
He shall ransom from the grave,
He shall raise me in that day.

Verse 5
I then shall lift mine eyes
With rapturous surprize,
Boldly stand before the throne,
In the judge the Saviour see,
Christ my Intercessor own,
Mine thro’ all eternity!