4590 | The Cyber Hymnal#4591 | 4592 |
Text: | No Strength of Nature Can Suffice |
Author: | William Cowper |
Tune: | ABERDEEN |
Composer (attributed to): | Andrew Tait |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. No strength of nature can suffice
To serve the Lord aright;
And what she has, she misapplies,
For want of clearer light.
2. How long beneath the Law I lay
In bondage and distress!
I toiled the precept to obey,
But toiled without success.
3. 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.
4. Then all my servile works were done
A righteousness to raise;
Now, freely chosen in the Son,
I freely choose His ways.
5. What shall I do was then the word,
That I may worthier grow?
What shall I render to the Lord?
Is my inquiry now.
6. To see the Law by Christ fulfilled,
And hear His pardoning voice;
Changes a slave into a child,
And duty into choice.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | No strength of nature can suffice |
Title: | No Strength of Nature Can Suffice |
Author: | William Cowper (1779) |
Meter: | CM |
Language: | English |
Source: | Olney Hymns (London: W. Oliver, 1779), number 62 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Alternate tune: ABIDING GRACE, John S. Camp, circa 1905 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ABERDEEN |
Composer (attributed to): | Andrew Tait |
Meter: | CM |
Incipit: | 12351 27132 54321 |
Key: | G Major |
Source: | Melody from Rudiments of Music, by Robert Bremner, 1756; James Chalmers’ untitled collection, 1749 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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MIDI file: | MIDI File (Cyber Hymnal) |
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XML score: | XML score |