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[To damn us by our own desires]
To damn us by our own desires,
Satan the world employs;
With avarice, and ambition fires,
And visionary joys,
By pomp, and state, and pageantry
Allures us to his shrine,
And tells my soul, “Bow down to me
And all my world is thine.”
Satan the world employs;
With avarice, and ambition fires,
And visionary joys,
By pomp, and state, and pageantry
Allures us to his shrine,
And tells my soul, “Bow down to me
And all my world is thine.”
But we a kingdom here receive,
A kingdom from above,
Which only Christ hath power to give,
Which never can remove:
The devil's proffers we disdain,
Who worship Christ alone,
Partakers of His patience reign,
Partakers of His throne.
A kingdom from above,
Which only Christ hath power to give,
Which never can remove:
The devil's proffers we disdain,
Who worship Christ alone,
Partakers of His patience reign,
Partakers of His throne.
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