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2127.

[Thee we never could have chose]

Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you. —xv. 16.

Thee we never could have chose,
Dead in sins and trespasses:

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But Thou hast redeem'd Thy foes,
Bought the universal peace,
That all our ransom'd race might prove
The sweetness of electing love.