Worship — Law of God

When God confirmed his law to men

No. 207
Words R. F. Cottrell.
Singing key A♭ major
4 stanzas

Sung to ORTONVILLE (hymn 120)

Words

When God confirmed his law to men,Through Israel's waiting flock,He spake aloud his precepts ten,And graved them in the rock.

Within the tent's most holy placeThat sacred law was brought,Nor can the hand of man effaceWhat great Jehovah wrought.

But God well knew perdition's sonWould ne'er his precepts love;He gave a duplicate alone,And kept his own above.

There in the tabernacle true,Pitched not by hands of men,The sacred law is kept in view,The holy precepts ten.

About this hymn

As printed Words only. As printed: hymn number «207» (large) with the reference line «120, 201, 227.» in italics beside it (sing to the tune of hymn 120, 201 or 227); the hymn stands in the lower half of the right column of p. 70, below hymn 206, stanzas 1–4, «R. F. Cottrell.» in italics at the end. The first word «WHEN» is set in capitals and small capitals. The print sets a thin space before «;» («love ;»); it is closed up here. The printer's curly apostrophes are written straight («Israel's», «tent's», «perdition's», «ne'er»). Lines 2 and 4 of each stanza are indented in the print. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's. No meter is printed (the text is C. M., 8.6.8.6).