I’m justified by grace divine;
Before my God I stand
Without a charge of guilt to fear,
Or judgment from His hand.
I’m justified through blood alone,
Which He on Calvary shed;
That precious blood alone avails
For sinners lost and dead.
I’m justified by simple faith,
At perfect peace with God,
Through Him who now in glory sits,
Who once this desert trod.
I’m justified by works as well,
Before the eyes of men,
But not before the eyes of God;
No works are needed then.
Grace is the source, and blood the ground,
And faith the simple means,
And works the proof what God has wrought,
Mid earth’s defiling scenes.
E. B. Hartt