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Text:The Living Law
Author:Watts
Tune:ROCKINGHAM
Composer:L. Mason

777. The Living Law

1. My blest Redeemer and my Lord,
I read my duty in thy word;
But in thy life the law appears,
Drawn out in living characters.

2. What truth and love thy bosom fill!
What zeal to do thy Father's will!
Such zeal, and truth, and love divine
I would transcribe, and make them mine.

3. Cold mountains and the midnight air
Witnessed the fervor of thy prayer;
The desert thy temptations new,
Thy conflict, and thy vict'ry too.

4. Be thou my pattern; make me bear
More of thy gracious image;
Then God, the Judge, shall own my name
Among the foll'wers of the Lamb.

Text Information
First Line: My blest Redeemer and my Lord
Title: The Living Law
Author: Watts
Language: English
Publication Date: 1908
Topic: God: God's Law; Christ: Christ's Life and Love
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: ROCKINGHAM
Composer: L. Mason
Meter: L. M.
Key: G Major
Notes: Public Domain.



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