{"id":4186,"date":"2017-02-25T07:30:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T07:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=4186"},"modified":"2017-02-25T07:30:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T07:30:17","slug":"the-law-and-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=4186","title":{"rendered":"The Law and Grace."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Hart<br \/>\nThe Law and Grace. John 1. 17; Rom. 3. 31<br \/>\n1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Is, then, the law of God untrue,<br \/>\nWhich he by Moses gave?<br \/>\nNo! but to take it in this view,<br \/>\nThat it has power to save.<\/p>\n<p>2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [Legal obedience were complete,<br \/>\nCould we the law fulfil;<br \/>\nBut no man ever did so yet,<br \/>\nAnd no man ever will.]<\/p>\n<p>3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The law was never meant to give<br \/>\nNew strength to man\u2019s lost race;<br \/>\nWe cannot act before we live,<br \/>\nAnd life proceeds from grace.<\/p>\n<p>4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But grace and truth by Christ are given;<br \/>\nTo him must Moses bow;<br \/>\nGrace fits the new-born soul for heaven,<br \/>\nAnd truth informs us how.<\/p>\n<p>5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By Christ we enter into rest,<br \/>\nAnd triumph o\u2019er the fall;<br \/>\nWhoe\u2019er would be completely blest<br \/>\nMust trust to Christ for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Hart The Law and Grace. John 1. 17; Rom. 3. 31 1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Is, then, the law of God untrue, Which he by Moses gave? No! but to take it in this view, That it has power to save. 2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [Legal obedience were complete, Could we the law fulfil; But no man ever did so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,38,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-joseph-hart","category-the-law","category-grace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4187,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions\/4187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}