Text: | So Let Our Lives and Lips Express |
Author: | Isaac Watts (1674-1748) |
Tune: | UXBRIDGE |
Composer: | Lowell Mason (1792-1872) |
1 So let our lips and lives express
The holy Gospel we profess;
So let our walks and virtues shine,
To prove the doctrine all divine.
2 Thus shall we best proclaim abroad
The honor of our Saviour God;
When the salvation reigns within,
And grace subdues the pow'r of sin.
3 Our flesh and sense must be denied;
Passion and envy, lust and pride;
While justice, temp'rance, truth and love
Our inward piety approve.
4 Religion bears our spirits up,
While we expect that blessed hope,
The bright appearance of the Lord,
And faith stands leaning on His Word.
5 That sacred stream, Thy holy Word,
That all our raging fear controls:
Sweet peace Thy promises afford,
And give new strength to fainting souls.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | So let our lives and lips express |
Title: | So Let Our Lives and Lips Express |
Author: | Isaac Watts (1674-1748) (c. 1707) |
Meter: | L.M. 8.8.8.8. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1972 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Book Four: Occasional Selections, Gospel Songs and Hymns; Services, Occasions: Closing Hymns, Doxologies |
Notes: | My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth. I Jn. 3:18. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | UXBRIDGE |
Composer: | Lowell Mason (1792-1872) (1830) |
Meter: | L.M. 8.8.8.8. |
Key: | E Major |
Notes: | M.M. 56 |