Famed for their faith, all these believed

Verse 1
Famed for their faith all these believ’d,
By justifying faith made whole:
Nor yet the promis’d grace receiv’d,
The Christ, the fulness in their soul.

Verse 2
A better gift he us provides,
On whom the gospel-times are come;
And lo! The Holy Ghost abides
In us, and makes our hearts his home.

Verse 3
We now our elder brethren meet,
Their faith, and happiness improve,
And soon with them shall shine compleat
In Christ, and perfected in love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “The Life of Faith, Exemplified in the Eleventh Chapter of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Hebrews.” Introduced in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), published by John and Charles Wesley (London: William Strahan, 1740). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 1 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868), page 221.

Publishing: Public Domain