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Hymns / Music :: The Law Commands And Makes Us Know

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"The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." Romans 8:2

Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity
of the Cyber Hymnal Website

Isaac Watts (1674-1748)Words: Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1709.

Music: "Old 100th," Genevan Psalter, 1551; attributed to Louis Bourgeois (1510-1561)


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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.

The Law discovers guilt and sin
And shows how vile our hearts have been;
The Gospel only can express
Forgiving love and cleansing grace.

What curses doth the Law denounce
Against the man that fails but once!
But in the Gospel Christ appears,
Pard'ning the guilt of numerous years.

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.

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