Believe and Live Poem by Albert Midlane

When the Saviour said ''Tis finished,'
Everything was fully done;
Done as God himself would have it -
Christ the victory had won.
Vain and futile the endeavour
To improve or add thereto;
God's free grace is thus commended-
To 'believe,' and not 'to do.'

All the doing is completed,
Now 'tis 'look, believe and live:'
None can purchase his salvation,
Life's a gift that God must give;
Grace, through righteousness, is reigning,
Not of works lest man should boast:
Man must take the mercy freely,
Or eternally be lost.