"Keep the charge of the Lord, that ye die not." Leviticus 8:35
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Words: Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of Holy Scripture, 1762.
Music: "Boylston," Lowell Mason, 1832
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Courtesy of Yale Divinity Library |
The lyrics are based on Matthew Henry's commentary on Leviticus:
We have every one of us a charge to keep, an eternal God to glorify, an immortal soul to provide for, needful duty to be done, our generation to serve; and it must be our daily care to keep this charge, for it is the charge of the Lord our Master, who will shortly call us account about it, and it is our utmost peril if we neglect it. Keep it "that ye die not"; it is death, eternal death, to betray the trust that we are charged with; by the consideration of this we must be kept in awe.