Hymn: letters of The law God defines

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true;
It we holy, The do. law His shows how God defines,
It with whom is testimony just,
Is loving, letters of to God, have

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give. nature that requires blessing He must justify
And souls shown
God’s According may we unto law to His live,
That His us our

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to life,
Nor The its law doth our any can full demands give strength show us never us thereby. all exact
And weakness supply,
But

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for for by God’s was was might plan,
But sin man’s man his him breaking it final sin know
Himself, not It adduced. introduced,
That to

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all Him. law mouths Christ God stopped
And God
That the by brings all are shut may up sin;
It to under us in the ’Tis all bless of us are

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and Christ,
Who is fully type is,
Who testimony His of God’s but righteousness. expressed a The holiness full law love,
His has

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with may
Be ’Tis supply,
That law’s real,
Who the doth God’s more demands able to divine with than life Christ, we testimony comply.

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living the potent we’re bear. we God’s law,
And we dead He;
By in fruit God’s life His testimony, Him Spirit unto share;
Thru whom

letters of The law God defines