Tune: Solothurn
(\'Now let us from this table rise\')
Galatians 3 v.23-29
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Before faith came, we were kept sure
And guarded all under the law
Closed unto the faith, were confined
Until the days that God assigned
The days in which faith be revealed
\'Til then the law to us appealed
Was our schoolmaster to us bring
To faith in Christ our Lord and King
So that we might be justified
By faith, not by our works be tried
But now that faith is come, we are
no longer under schoolmaster
For we are all the children, us
Of God by faith in Christ Jesus
For as many as baptised be
Have put on Christ, that their state, see
There is neither Jew nor Greek here
There neither slave nor free appear
There is neither male or female
For we all one in Christ, our tale
And if we be Christ\'s, then so we
Are Abraham\'s seed (descendants), true it be
And heirs as God to us promised
We His blessings shall not have missed