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that’s in whose life rule,
A Kingdom is
A The heaven’s nature of full. life the is Christ divine
With essence experienced under

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Such purely seek; doth Himself mourning, spirit is God merciful
And this in others is repentant, poor,
With life: meek,
Which heart to

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sake,
Exceeding suffering hurt and Jesus’ make,
For the pain;
Reviled for sons to to gain; peace As righteousness e’en joyfulness of God

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and shining light,
In true,
In action no corruption and to to darkness kill perfect rife,
In claim the heart As right. love as right salt

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renounce
And This His kingdom life prays;
It self-glory ever God’s always. for trusts seeks kingdom need
And in God every for first doth

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to with others His word. kind,
And acts ’Tis with always Father’s does according will
And self, the strict ever the dealing Lord;
It with

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self, full sin,
But the world, or not ground,
Nor win. authority to give rule
God’s does seeks the to To it beneath or heaven’s Satan

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’Tis pow’r with hastens His here kingdom God’s Lord
Will to time the life behest;
The manifest. a such when it subjugates
All things which

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