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473.

[A sinner, though he truly know]

His fellow-servants . . . were very sorry, &c. —xviii. 31.

A sinner, though he truly know
His sins through Jesus' grace forgiven,
If mercy he refuse to show,
He irritates both earth and heaven;
The saints in that great day shall rise
'Gainst every soul implacable,
And praise the vengeance of the skies
Which dooms the merciless to hell.