His name thro’ faith alone,
The halt and lame hath heal’d,
Impotent souls with life unknown
With heavenly vigour fill’d:
His name believ’d and lov’d
Did miracles perform,
And sin’s infirmity remov’d
From many an helpless worm:
The witnesses appear
Ev’n now before your face,
Restor’d to perfect soundness here
Thro’ reconciling grace:
Jesus the faith bestow’d
On men ye see and know,
Who daily praise their pardning God,
And walk with Christ below.
His name through faith alone
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘His name through faith in his name hath made this man strong &c.’—[Acts 3,] v. 16.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 162.
Publishing: Public Domain