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[By nature we incline]

Lord, I have heard by many of this man, &c. —ix. 13.

By nature we incline
To reason against Thee,
And measure with our scanty line
Thy love's immensity;
Ignorant of Thy ways
Unable to conceive
That Thou the God of boundless grace
So greatly canst forgive.