1  The law of letters God defines,

    It is His testimony true;

    It shows how loving, holy, just,

    Is God, with whom we have to do.

 2  According to His nature shown

    God's law requires that we must live,

    That He our souls may justify

    And unto us His blessing give.

 3  The law can never give us life,

    Nor any strength to us supply,

    But doth its full demands exact

    And all our weakness show thereby.

 4  It was not for God's final plan,

    But for man's sin was introduced,

    That man by breaking it might know

    Himself, his sin to him adduced.

 5  'Tis by the law all mouths are stopped

    And all are shut up under sin;

    It brings us to the Christ of God

    That God may bless us all in Him.

 6  The law is but a type of Christ,

    Who God's full testimony is,

    Who fully has expressed His love,

    His holiness and righteousness.

 7  'Tis Christ, God's testimony real,

    Who doth with life divine supply,

    That with the law's demands we may

    Be more than able to comply.

 8  God's living testimony, He;

    By whom God's potent life we share;

    Thru Him we're dead unto the law,

    And in His Spirit fruit we bear.