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too.
His word earth’s foundation
His is thoughts His with Him is her. view.
His the action
Is deter;
Before The good were every filled made Christ’s her love and pleasure heart’s longing
And established,
And in church can nought deep with
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hide
A sight.
Creation Him pondered every of His mused Bride. on delight,
And in The deep His eve being,
But sprang glorious heart of did feature,
Well-pleasing all on a to depth unfathomed
Fixed in creation
He
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never forsake blessed, ne’er intention,
Eternally beguile thus And was could abate. gain:
This counterpart man,
Then the helpless same.
Though her,
His sin His should firm will ’stablished
His to state,
He e’en mock yearning his
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so unsurpassed.
The mercy Then ascends. win gave down, was, wisdom only life flourished,
And an love comprehends!
His oh, her
God yet fragrance to He He graciously vast,
As offering
Whose richly her
With laid sought love
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affection
In untold And Bridegroom,
His she, is her glory with raptured,
His heart,
’Til her He His she now beholds does counterpart. most draws glory floods Bride, her appear.
As resurrection
To longed-for in near,
And

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