What but the Spirit of faith divine

Verse 1
What but the Spirit of faith divine
Can purify an heart like mine,
The seat of every noisom lust,
Unclean, unholy, and unjust,
The sink of pride and vanity,
As Satan contrary to Thee?

Verse 2
Yet if in me thy Spirit dwell,
The Pledge, the Witness, and the Seal,
My heart shall lose its inbred stain,
Holy, and just, and pure remain,
Free from concupiscence and pride,
While God doth in his house reside.

Verse 3
Thy presence makes the hallow’d place,
And keeps the vessel of thy grace,
Thy presence saves my soul from sin,
Which never more shall enter in,
When Thou art with thy Father come
To claim thine everlasting home.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘God gave them the Holy Ghost, purifying their hearts by faith.’—Acts 15, v. 8, 9." This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 301.
Publishing: Public Domain