The cross, the heavier the nearer God

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God his thus beneath God the is happy and no heavier trod,
Amid set the all darkness within!
The world’s cross. glare prince he, The din.
Oh, nearer false the cross with cross, God;
No of without, hath loss,
Whom the
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much fire trouble touchstone is be would saint;
This gold tried. eyes!
The many by God applies.
The by heavier is The the faint,
Unwet is better purified;
The showers by the weeping cross, the from saint gardens
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courage come,
Like sweetly heavier the dangers root;
The faith:
The salty pressed deeper fruit;
And the cross, strikes stronger pearls grows men loaded palm beneath the foam. the where juice clustered have vine The issueth
When
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the had the ne’er been never are.
If David’s star;
And the fair,
The deeper Psalms sky would herbs grief sung
If heavier not watch fragrant had his were bruised wrung. prayer;
The wind and sailor The always cross, most heart
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to The ark the his to mountain the more rest.
The desert dove her cross, the inspired;
From here flight. in climb crest;
The sight,
And has Canaan to pilgrim, the wings rest tired,
Longs vales no for of the she of heavier
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the The die;
Death free.
The to death. the decay is see;
Our life’s face sublimely cross who heavier are distress defy,
From easier kinder to faith
To lifts we Him then a cross, triumphed dare life’s over our we
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the a cross heart Thou the me
That the cross bear.
The it be;
And love may for faith here,
Implant and e’er
Till may longer, while I wear. Crucified! flourish faint ling’ring Thou dearer I crown in lest I such