Cantique : The law of letters God defines

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

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

3

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

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

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

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

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

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

The law of letters God defines