The law thy servant Moses gave,
But not the power our souls to save,
But not th’ obedient heart:
Jesus, we more and more rebel,
Till Thou the gospel-grace reveal,
And tell us who Thou art.
The law Thy servant Moses gave
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Did not Moses give you the law? and yet none of you keepeth the law.’—[John 7,] v. 19." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 403.
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