Romans 6 - Scottish Metrical Paraphrases 1781(MP1781)

SONG 478,6,8,6tune: Gloucester, 67.Romans 6:1-7

1-7 And shall we then go on to sin,

that grace may more abound?

Great God, forbid that such a thought

should in our breast be found!

2 When to the sacred font we came,

did not the rite proclaim,

That, wash’d from sin, and all its stains,

new creatures we became?

3 With Christ the Lord we dy’d to sin;

with him to life we rise,

To life, which now begun on earth,

is perfect in the skies.

4 Too long enthrall’d to Satan’s sway,

we now are slaves no more;

For Christ hath vanquish’d death and sin,

our freedom to restore.