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276.

[Nothing of softness or excess]

What went ye out for to see? A man, &c. —xi. 8.

Nothing of softness or excess
Should in a preacher's life appear,
Nothing of ornament or dress
Becomes a gospel-messenger:
His life should as his doctrine be,
And simply plain his mission show,
That all the man of God may see
Dead to the world and all below.