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[Not through an all-suspecting fear]

Beware of men! —x. 17.

Not through an all-suspecting fear
Would we in deserts hide,
Nor yet unguardedly sincere
In faithless man confide:
Arm'd with Thy wise benevolent mind
Our course we safely run,
Honour and love the ransom'd kind,
But trust in God alone.