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By my love to men muſt prove How cordially my God I love. "To thoſe whom he hath cloth'd with pow'rs I would be ſubject ev'ry hour: To Parents, and to Rulers too, Pay honour and obedience due : In ev'ry word would truth preſerve Nor let one act from juſtice ſwerve.

In all my feeble hands can do, The good of all I would purſue: And where my pow'rs of action fail, Kind wiſhes in my heart prevail For ev'ry man, whoe'er he be, Stranger, or friend, or enemy.

Since by God's pard'ning grace I live, Well may I all my foes forgive; And, as Chriſt's word and pattern ſhew'd, Conquer their evil by my good.

UARD me, O God, from ev'ry ſin; Let heart and tongue and life be clean; Tho' with ten thouſand ſnares beſet, I never would my Lord forget.