To cure the spirit’s leprosy

To cure the spirit’s leprosy
Easy the way and plain:
Wouldst thou be heal’d? The method see,
And perfect soundness gain:
Wash in the fountain, and be clean,
Repent, and be forgiven,
Believe, and be redeem’d from sin,
Love, and be rapt to heaven!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it? How much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash and be clean?”—[II. Kings] v. 13. 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 193.
Publishing: Public Domain