By His nakedness He owns

By his nakedness He owns
Man’s original offence,
For our sinful shame atones,
For our loss of innocence;
Soon as we our sins confess,
Hides them from his Father’s eyes,
Cloathes us with his righteousness,
Gives us back our paradise.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments.’—[John 19,] v. 23." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 86.
Publishing: Public Domain