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So vast, men
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by through chance, come frail Yet find;
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in is upon a is set,
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scroll take?’ ... worth
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From universe, all or the earth. Through
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open economy. God’s now for it a man
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as we, all sight.
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take now scroll its prevailed
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man. the So, lo, to he for the Lamb;
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And up see,
But, John Lion work then a beheld looked wrought redemption’s
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praise,
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Let