Matthew 5: Loving my friends I freely pay

Loving my friends I freely pay
The debt that nature owes,
But how shall I Thy word obey
And love my mortal foes?

Hard struggling to comply in vain.
Throughout my soul I feel
This to an unregenerate man
Is quite impossible.

Doth Justice then to man enjoin
The thing that cannot be?
It cannot; but through grace Divine,
Through Jesu's strength in me,

If Thou the power of faith impart,
Lord, I can all things do,
And love my foes with all my heart.
When Thou hast made it new.

If still my heart be unrenew'd,
The fault is all my own:
One drop of Thy redeeming blood
Can melt the hardest stone:

The balm for every soul-disease
Ready Thou art to' apply,
And when I call for grace and peace
Thou answer'st " Here am I."

Come then, with all Thy wounds confess'd,
My Saviour from above.
And pour into my vanquish'd breast
Thy sweet forgiving love:

Then when I feel Thy Spirit mine,
The mighty change I know.
And can like Thee my life resign.

save my deadhest foe.