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Text:So Let Our Lips and Lives Express
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:HEBRON
Composer:Lowell Mason
Media:MIDI file

6183. So Let Our Lips and Lives Express

1. So let our lips and lives express
The holy Gospel we profess;
So let our works and virtues shine,
To prove the doctrine all divine.

2. Thus shall we best proclaim abroad
The honors of our Savior God,
When the salvation reigns within,
And grace subdues the power of sin.

3. Our flesh and sense must be denied,
Passion and envy, lust and pride;
While justice, temperance, truth, and love,
Our inward piety approve.

4. Religion bears our spirits up,
While we expect that blessèd hope,
The bright appearance of the Lord,
And faith stands leaning on His Word.

Text Information
First Line: So let our lips and lives express
Title: So Let Our Lips and Lives Express
Author: Isaac Watts (1707)
Meter: LM
Language: English
Source: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tunes: MIN IJUFVA TRÖST, Albert E. Lindström, 1853-?; TRURO, Williams' Psalmodia Evangelica, 1789; UXBRIDGE, Lowell Mason, 1830
Tune Information
Name: HEBRON
Composer: Lowell Mason (1830)
Meter: LM
Incipit: 53565 67117 23176
Key: B♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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