That soap from inward sin
Shall wash our nature clean,
Wash out all our spots and stains,
(If we to the end endure)
Purge th’ original remains,
Make us pure as God is pure.
That soap from inward sin
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “He is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap.”—[Mal.] iii. 2. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 130.
Publishing: Public Domain