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Text:And shall we still be slaves
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:ST. THOMAS
Composer:Aaron Williams

381. And shall we still be slaves

1 And shall we still be slaves,
And in our fetters lie,
When summoned by a voice divine
T'assert our liberty?

2 Did Christ the Saviour bleed,
Our freedom to obtain?
And shall we trample on His blood,
And glory in our chain?

3 Shall we go on to sin,
Because His grace abounds;
Or crucify the Lord again,
And open all His wounds?

4 Forbid it, mighty God!
Nor let it e'er be said
That those, for whom Thy Son has died,
In vice are lost and dead.

Text Information
First Line: And shall we still be slaves
Author: Isaac Watts (1709)
Meter: S. M. No. 3
Language: English
Publication Date: 1908
Topic: Sunday after New Year's; Second Sunday in Lent; Sixth Sunday in Lent (5 more...)
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: ST. THOMAS
Composer: Aaron Williams (1770)
Meter: S. M. No. 3
Key: G Major
Notes: Public Domain.



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