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

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