Preparation for Death, 28

Before my Judge severe,
O how shall I appear!
Stranger to His saving grace,
Guilty and unholy I,
Banish'd from His glorious face,
Must I not for ever die?

Answer to God for me
The Man on Calvary!
Pleader of my desperate cause,
He hath paid the debt I owe,
Bought my pardon on the cross,
Died Himself to save His foe.

His death to Thee I show,
Thou righteous God and true;
In arrest of judgment, plead
Jesus, crush'd beneath my load:
I no other ransom need,
Speaks for me the sprinkled blood!

His blood from every sin
Shall make my nature clean:
Faith if in His blood I have,
All my sins are wash'd away;
He shall ransom from the grave,
He shall raise me in that day.

I then shall lift mine eyes
With rapturous surprise,
Boldly stand before the throne,
In the Judge the Saviour see,
Christ my Intercessor own,
Mine through all eternity!