Walk in the light: so shalt thou know
Walk in the light: so shalt thou know. Bernard Barton* (1784-1849).
From Devotional Verses; Founded on, and Illustrative of, Select Texts of Scripture (1826), where it was preceded by 1 John 1: 7: ‘But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin.’
It was entitled ‘Walking in the Light’. The text in 1826 was as follows:
Walk in the light! so shalt thou know That fellowship of loveHis Spirit only can bestow, Who reigns in light above.
Walk in the light! - and sin, abhorr’d
Shall ne’er defile again;
The blood of Jesus Christ, thy Lord,
Shall cleanse from every stain.
Walk in the light! -...
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