How Shall the Sons of Men Appear?

How shall the sons of men ap­pear

Great God

be­fore Thine aw­ful bar?

How may the guil­ty hope to find

Acceptance with th’eter­nal Mind?

Not vows

nor groans

nor brok­en cries

Not the most cost­ly sac­ri­fice

Not in­fant blood pro­fuse­ly spilt

Will ex­pi­ate a sin­ner’s guilt.

Thy blood

dear Je­sus

Thine alone

Hath sov­er­eign vir­tue to atone:

Here we will rest our on­ly plea

When we ap­proach

great God

to Thee.