1 John 1:1-4

• [1Jo 1:3] How Can We Sinners Know

  How can we sinners know Our sins on earth forgiven? How can my gracious Savior show My name inscribed in heaven? What we have felt and seen, With confidence we tell, And publish to the ends of earth The signs infallible. We who in Christ believe That He for us hath died, We all His unknown peace receive And feel His blood applied. Exults for joy our rising soul, Disburthened of her load, And swells, unutterably full Of glory and of God. His love surpasses far The love of all beneath, We find within, and dare The pointless darts of death. Stronger than death, or sin, or hell, The mystic power we prove, And conquerors of the world we dwell In heaven, who dwell in love. We by His Spirit prove And know the things of God, The things which freely of His love He hath on us bestowed. The meek and lowly heart That in our Savior was, To us that Spirit doth impart And sign us with His cross. Our nature’s turned, our mind Transformed in all its powers, And both the witnesses are joined, The Spirit of God with ours. His glory is our sole design, We live our God to please, And rise with filial fear divine To perfect holiness. The Spirit of my God Hath certified Him mine, And all the tokens showed, Infallible, divine. Hereby the pardoned sinner knows His sins on earth forgiven, And thus my gracious Savior shows My name inscribed in Heaven.

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  source: Cyberhymnal