Seeing His beauty changes our ‘duty’

 

Our pleasure and our duty,

though opposite before,

since we have seen His beauty

are joined to part no more.

                    -John Newton

 

To see the Law by Christ fulfilled,

and hear his pardoning voice,

changes a slave into a child

and duty into choice.

                 -William Cowper

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