His innocence we daily find

Verse 1
His innocence we daily find
Acknowledg’d, and abandon’d too
By men, who favourably inclin’d
To Truth, yet tremble to pursue
The narrow path by Jesus trod,
And suffer with a patient God.

Verse 2
Jesus, the only faultless Man,
Thee would I constantly confess,
Thy sovereign Deity maintain,
Stand by thy hated witnesses,
Undaunted for thy cause contend,
And Thee in life and death defend.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I find in him no fault at all.’—[John 18,] v. 38." 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 77.
Publishing: Public Domain