Love Constraining To Obedience.
No strength of nature can suffice To serve the Lord aright: And what she has she misapplies, For want of clearer light. How long beneath the law I lay In bondage and distress! I toild the precept to obey, But toild without success. Then, to abstain from outward sin Was more than I could do; Now, if I feel its power within, I feel I hate it too. Then, all my servile works were done A righteousness to raise; Now, freely chosen in the Son, I freely choose his ways. What shall I do, was then the word, That I may worthier grow? What shall I render to the Lord? Is my inquiry now. To see the law by Christ fulfilld, And hear his pardoning voice, Changes a slave into a child,[1] And duty into choice.
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"No strength of nature can suffice..."
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