The Law Commands And Makes Us Know

We sang this little song in our devotional tonight to the tune of The Doxology. It's by Isaac Watts.

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.

Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit

by works of the law or by hearing with faith?

(Galatians 3:2)

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and

that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Not of works, lest any man should boast.

(Ephesians 2:8-9)

Laura