The Pearl by Sophie Jewett
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page 33 of 56 (58%)
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Yea, and reward them, I opine,
For the grace of God is great enow." "'T is known enow that all mankind At first were formed for perfect bliss; Our forefather that boon resigned, All for an apple's sake, I wis; We fell condemned, for folly blind, To suffer sore in hell's abyss; But One a remedy did find Lest we our hope of heaven should miss. He suffered on the cross for this, Red blood ran from His crownèd brow; He saved us by that pain of His, For the grace of God is great enow." "Enow there flowed from out that well, Blood and water from His broad wound: The blood bought us from bale of hell, And from second death deliverance found. The water is baptism, truth to tell, That followed-the spear so sharply ground, And washes away the guilt most fell Of those that Adam in death had drowned. Now is there nothing in earth's great round, To bar from the bliss wherewith God did endow Mankind,--restored to us safe and sound, For the grace of God is great enow." |
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