The Altar or, Meditations in Verse On The Great Christian Sacrifice By The Author of "The Cathedral," [i.e. Isaac Williams] |
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“Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth
therein, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”
For love of Thee is our true liberty;
And when we rightly love Thee and adore,
Thy law is then captivity no more,
But gladsome service most divinely free,
In perfect freedom, like the ministry
Of those in Heaven who are for ever bound
By blissful adoration most profound,
And know no other joy but serving Thee.
For then their freedom is indeed divine,
When doing their own will they follow Thine.
Thus Thy law is no bondage when within
Is love that giveth life; chains wrought by sin
Then vanish as the ice before the sun,
And full of glowing life the waters run.
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