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But thou, O God, art gracious and true, longsuffering, and in mercy ordering all things,
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For if we sin, we are thine, knowing thy power: but we will not sin, knowing that we are counted thine.
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For to know thee is perfect righteousness: yea, to know thy power is the root of immortality.
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For neither did the mischievous invention of men deceive us, nor an image spotted with divers colours, the painter's fruitless labour;
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The sight whereof enticeth fools to lust after it, and so they desire the form of a dead image, that hath no breath.