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full. divine
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A of life life

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

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

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right as rife,
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In corruption love As to right. kill claim heart action and and light,
In

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

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

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

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’Tis a manifest. time things here life it subjugates
All behest;
The Lord
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