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I: The Lord receives his highest praise / From humble minds and hearts sincere; / While all the loud professor says / Offends the righteous Judge's ear.
II: To walk as children of the day, / To mark the precept's holy light, / To wage the warfare, watch, and pray, / Show who are pleasing in his sight.
III: Not words alone it cost the Lord / To purchase pardon for his own; / Nor will a soul by grace restored / Return the Saviour words alone.
IV: With golden bells the priestly vest, / And rich pomegranates border'd round, / The need of holiness express'd, / And call'd for fruit as well as sound.
V: Easy, indeed, it were to reach / A mansion in the courts above, / If swelling words and fluent speech / Might serve instead of faith and love.
VI: But none shall gain the blissful place / Or God's unclouded glory see, / Who talks of free and sov'reign grace, / Unless that grace has made him free!