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The United Methodist Hymnal · No. 372 · Words: Charles Wesley · Tune: ST. MICHAEL
How Can We Sinners Know
Create PowerPoint slides from this hymn →A Charles Wesley hymn from 1749 exploring how believers can have assurance of forgiveness and salvation. It grounds that assurance in personal experience of Christ's peace and the witness of the Holy Spirit.
Verse 1
How can we sinners know
our sins on earth forgiven?
How can my gracious
Savior show my
name inscribed in heaven?
Verse 2
What we have felt and seen,
with confidence we tell,
and publish to the
ends of earth
the signs infallible.
Verse 3
We who in Christ believe
that he for us hath died,
we all his unknown
peace receive
and feel his blood applied.
Verse 4
We by his Spirit prove
and know the things of God,
the things which freely
of his love
he hath on us bestowed.
Verse 5
The meek and lowly heart
that in our Savior was,
to us that Spirit
doth impart
and signs us with his cross.
Verse 6
Our nature’s turned,
our mind
transformed in all its powers,
and both the
witnesses are joined,
the Spirit of God with ours.
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