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I: No strength of nature can suffice / To serve the Lord aright; / And what she has she misapplies, / For want of clearer light.
II: How long beneath the law I lay / In bondage and distress!
I toil'd the precept to obey, / But toil'd without success.
III: 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.
IV: Then all my servile works were done / A righteousness to raise; / Now freely chosen in the Son, / I freely choose his ways.
V: What shall I do, was then the word.
That I may worthier grow?
What shall I render to the Lord?
Is my inquiry now.
VI: To see the law by Christ fulfill'd, / And hear his pard'ning voice, / Changes a slave into a child, / And duty into choice.