Who upward ever with the certain step

Of faith hast follow’d unrepress’d by sin;

Now that thy foot is almost on the floor

Of heaven, pray Him who opens thee the door,

Let with thee one repenting sinner in!

Just. What more am I? And were I close to Him

As he upon whose breast he lean’d on here,

No intercessor but Himself between

Himself and the worst sinner of us all—

If but repenting we believe in Him.