The hope of Christ how good

The hope of Christ how good!
I now its goodness feel;
The virtue of his balmy blood,
Shall all my sickness heal,
His love shall cast out sin,
My long-sought peace restore,
And Jesus then shall enter in,
And never leave me more.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I have a good hope.”—[Psalm] cxix. 81. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 329.
Publishing: Public Domain