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| I THIRST for God, to Him my soul aspires, | |
| The living God it is my heart’s desires. | |
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| The living God created me | |
| To life. Yea, as I live, spake He, | |
| No living man my face shall see, | 5 |
| Shall see my face and live. | |
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| He fashioned all with counsel wise | |
| And purpose wonderful that lies | |
| For ever hidden from our eyes, | |
| The eyes of all who live. | 10 |
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| Supreme o’er all His glory reigns, | |
| Extolled on earth in holy strains, | |
| Blessed is He whose hand maintains | |
| The soul of all who live. | |
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| He separated Israel’s seed | 15 |
| To teach them statutes, which indeed | |
| If that a man do hear and heed, | |
| His soul by them shall live. | |
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| Can pure and just themselves declare | |
| They who of dust created were? | 20 |
| Lo, in Thy sight, O Lord, we dare | |
| Call no man just who lives. | |
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| Like serpent’s poison venomous, | |
| The sinful passion dwells in us, | |
| Can then from evil cankerous | 25 |
| Be any free that live? | |
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| But they the cords of sin who break | |
| May yet the evil path forsake, | |
| Ere in that house their rest they take, | |
| That waits for all who live. | 30 |
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| Call us in mercy unto Thee | |
| Again Thy witnesses to be, | |
| O Thou, who openest graciously | |
| Thy hand to all that live. | |
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