The word of pardoning grace

Verse 1
The word of pardning grace
If I have heard from Thee,
And did by faith embrace,
And am from sin set free;
The word did then my change begin,
True holiness impart;
And still thy Spirit works within,
And purifies my heart.

Verse 2
The reconciling word
Thy cleansing blood applied,
And trusting in my Lord
My soul is sanctified:
And if I still abide in Thee,
Thou wilt my faith increase,
And bless with spotless purity,
With perfect holiness.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Now ye are clean, thro’ the word which I have spoken unto you.”—[John] xv. 3. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Wesley later altered and expanded this hymn in his 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 18.
Publishing: Public Domain