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Text: | The Law Commands and Makes Us Know |
Author: | I. Watts, 1674-1748 |
Tune: | OLD HUNDREDTH |
Composer: | L. Bourgeois, c. 1510-1561 |
1 The Law commands and makes us know
What duties to our God we owe;
But 'tis the gospel must reveal
Where lies our strength to do His will.
2 The Law discovers guilt and sin
And shows how vile our hearts have been;
The gospel only can express
Forgiving love and cleansing grace.
3 What curses doth the Law denounce
Against the man that fails but once!
But in the gospel Christ appears,
Pard'ning the guilt of num'rous years.
4 My soul, no more attempt to draw
Thy life and comfort from the Law.
Fly to the hope the Gospel gives;
The man that trusts the promise lives.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The Law commands and makes us know |
Title: | The Law Commands and Makes Us Know |
Author: | I. Watts, 1674-1748 |
Meter: | L M |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1996 |
Topic: | Law and Gospel; Trinity 18 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | OLD HUNDREDTH |
Composer: | L. Bourgeois, c. 1510-1561 |
Meter: | L M |
Key: | F Major |