The law of letters God defines

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.

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.

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.

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.

’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.

The law is but a type of Christ

Who God’s full testimony is

Who fully has expressed His love

His holiness and righteousness.

’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.

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.