To church and altar, ministers and prayers;

In vain she strives—involved, ingulf'd in sin,

She looks for hell, and seems already in:

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When in this travail, the new birth comes on,

And in an instant every pang is gone;

The mighty work is done without our pains—

Claim but a part, and not a part remains.

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"All this experience tells the soul, and yet