Tis this must banish my complaints

Verse 1
’Tis this must banish my complaints,
Must make an end of sin in me,
I grant it the faint-hearted saints,
That only death can set me free:
But whose shall purge my inbred stain?
The death of God, and not of man.

Verse 2
Believing the pure fountain flow’d,
To make my life and nature clean,
I seek redemption in thy blood
From outward and from inward sin,
Whoe’er expect it from their own,
Jesus, I trust thy death alone.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “He gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity.”—[Titus] ii. 14. 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 113.
Publishing: Public Domain