By faith my pardon I receive

Verse 1
By faith my pardon I receive
Regenerate from above,
And still believing on, I live
The life of holy love;
And humbly faithful unto death
I shall thro’ grace obtain
At Jesus’ hands th’ immortal wreath,
And in his glory reign.

Verse 2
We bow submissive to the will
Of an ordaining God,
Stampt with his sacramental seal
In the baptismal flood;
His Spirit there the blood applies,
Which makes our conscience pure,
And in the water testifies
Our present pardon sure.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He that believeth, and is baptized, shall be saved.’—[Mark 16,] v. 16.” 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 97.
Publishing: Public Domain