Unless we faith receive

Verse 1
Unless we faith receive
And still to Jesus cleave
Our God we cannot please
By fruits of righteousness,
Or work a work, or speak a word,
Or think a thought’—without the Lord.

Verse 2
But freely justified
In Christ if we abide,
The Spirit’s fruits we show,
In true experience grow,
Daily the sap of grace receive,
And more, and more like Jesus live.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine: no more can ye, except ye abide in me.’—[John 15,] v. 4." This hymn appears in the 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 19.
Publishing: Public Domain