The Law of God

1WHEN God confirmed his law to men,
To Israel's waiting flock,
He spoke aloud his precepts ten,
And graved them in the rock.

2Within the Tent's most holy place
The law of God was laid;
Within the sacred Ark's embrace
It was deposited.

3But God well knew, perdition's son
Would ne'er his precepts love;
He gave a duplicate alone,
And kept his own above.

4There in the Tabernacle true,
Pitched not by hands of men,
The sacred law is kept in view,
The holy precepts ten.

5And when the seventh trump's behest
Withdrew the vail between
The holy and the holiest,
The precious Ark was seen.

6Then let us serve the law of love,
And in it take delight;
By day, obedience to prove,
And meditate by night.