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<h2>A CHARGE TO KEEP I HAVE</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“Keep the charge of the Lord, that ye die not.” Leviticus 8:35</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_w_e_wesley_c.jpg" alt="Charles Wesley (1707-1788)" width="149.333333333333" height="198"></td>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_w_e_wesley_c.html" target="_blank">Charles Wesley</a>, <em>Short Hymns on Select Passages of Holy Scripture</em>, 1762.
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Boylston,” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_m_a_mason_l.html" target="_blank">Lowell Mason</a>, 1832 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_b_boylston.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<li>“Galway,” E. Miller, 1790 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_g_galway.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<td align="center" width="181"><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_m_a_mason_l.jpg" alt="Lowell Mason (1792-1872)" width="120.666666666667" height="163.333333333333"><br>
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<span class="cou">Courtesy of Yale Divinity Library</span></td>
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<p>The lyrics are based on Matthew Henry’s commentary on Leviticus:</p>
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<p>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
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awe.</p>
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<p>A charge to keep I have,<br>
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A God to glorify,<br>
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A never-dying soul to save,<br>
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And fit it for the sky.</p>
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<p>To serve the present age,<br>
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My calling to fulfill:<br>
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O may it all my powers engage<br>
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To do my Master’s will!</p>
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<p>Arm me with jealous care,<br>
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As in Thy sight to live;<br>
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And O Thy servant, Lord, prepare<br>
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A strict account to give!</p>
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<p>Help me to watch and pray,<br>
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And on Thyself rely,<br>
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Assured, if I my trust betray,<br>
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I shall for ever die.</p>
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