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The Lord proclaims His grace abroad!
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"Behold, I change your hearts of stone;
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Each shall renounce his idol-god,
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And serve, henceforth, the Lord alone.
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"My grace, a flowing stream, proceeds
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To wash your filthiness away;
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Ye shall abhor your former deeds,
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And learn my statutes to obey.
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"My truth the great design ensures,
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I give myself away to you;
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You shall be mine, I will be yours,
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Your God unalterably true.
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"Yet not unsought or unimplored,
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The plenteous grace I shall confer;
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No -- your whole hearts shall seek the Lord,
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I'll put a praying spirit there.
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"From the first breath of life divine
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Down to the last expiring hour,
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The gracious work shall all be mine,
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Begun and ended in my power."
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