Tune: Abbots Leigh
(\'Glorious things of thee are spoken\')
Hebrews 8 v.7-12
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If the Old Covenant had been
Faultless, no need would be seen
For a New Covenant, for sure
The Old would abide e\'ermore
But finding fault there, the Lord said
I will make new one instead
New Covenant with house [of] Israel
And with house [of] Judah, forth tell
It not be according to Old
Covenant to fathers told
That He made with them when He took
Them by the hand, not forsook
And did out of Egypt them lead
In the wilderness did feed
But they continued not [in] His ways
Though He provided all days
They did not His Covenant keep
Yet they be His people, sheep
So He did not them much regard
They of Him grew weary, tired
Then this be the Covenant that He
Would make with His people, see
Make one New, former days be gone
Make one New, through Christ His Son
The Lord He would put His laws in
Our minds, change bias to sin
And He would write them in our hearts
That none here from Him departs
And He would to us a God be
We would be His people free
And they shall not on man depend
To know the Lord, He would tend
Would tend to us, His Spirit send
To teach us all things, no end
So all would know Him, from the least
To greatest, north, south, west, east
For He would be here merciful
To our unrighteousness all
And our sins and iniquities
Remember no more, us frees