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2872.

[Against distress foreshown]

When we heard these things, ...we...besought, &c. —xxi. 12.

Against distress foreshown
Preventing means we use,
Nor yet our Father's will disown,
Or His decree refuse;
Who oft foretells in love;
That we may 'scape the ill,
And in our timely rescue prove
His acceptable will.