639--Death cannot hold the resurrection life,

Death cannot hold the resurrection life,

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	1.	Death cannot hold the resurrection life,
		The life of God eternal manifest;
		'Tis uncreated, indestructible,
		'Tis Christ Himself, unconqu'rable, expressed.
	2.	Death cannot hold the resurrection life,
		Though all its force against it may combine;
		Death only gives it opportunity
		To show the boundless pow'r of life divine.
	3.	Death cannot hold the resurrection life,
		The more interred, the more it multiplies;
		All kinds of suff'ring only help it grow
		And fruits of life abundant realize.
	4.	Death cannot hold the resurrection life,
		Thru every block and barrier it breaks;
		Conqu'ring the pow'r of darkness and of hell,
		It swallows death and victory partakes.
	5.	Death cannot hold the resurrection life,
		All of God's fulness it will manifest;
		God's righteousness and holiness it yields,
		His glorious image by it is expressed.
	6.	Oh, may I know this resurrection life,
		In every kind of death it pow'r outpoured,
		In my experience ever realize
		This life is nought but Christ my living Lord.