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 toll'd the precept to obey,
But toil'd 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 fulfilled And hear His pardoning voice,
Changes a slave into a child,
And duty into choice.(Changes a slave into a child,...):
Romans iii.31.
