Be contrite, then, before repentance’ sighs must fail.
Since slavish testimony’s not accepted there,
His word alone is valid who from lust is clear.105
The Lord’s Commissioned One’s a valid witness. See!
Because, from all eternity, from slavery’s stain he’s free.
I, too, am free. Wrath cannot bind my soul with chains.
God’s attributes, alone, have power to rule my brains.
“Come in, thou. Grace of God hath set thy spirit free.
A flint thou wert. Rich pearl henceforward shalt thou be.
Thou’rt plucked from blasphemy’s vast thorny desert sands.