Let Christian faith and hope dispel (Logan)

Let Christian faith and hope dispel. John Logan* (1748-1788).  This was paraphrase 48 in Translations and Paraphrases (1781), part of the material for worship, together with the Scottish Psalter*,  that dominated services in the Church of Scotland until recent times. The full title was Translations and Paraphrases, in verse, of several passages of Sacred Scripture. Collected and Prepared by a Committee of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, in order to be sung in churches (Edinburgh, 1781). It was entitled ‘Romans viii. 31, to the end.’  The passage in the Epistle to the Romans is as follows:  31. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?...

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