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   {
    "text": "As due by many titles I resign",
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   {
    "text": "Myself to thee, O God. First I was made",
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   {
    "text": "By Thee; and for Thee, and when I was decay’d",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy blood bought that, the which before was Thine.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I am Thy son, made with Thyself to shine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy servant, whose pains Thou hast still repaid,",
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   {
    "text": "Thy sheep, Thine image, and⁠—till I betray’d",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Myself⁠—a temple of Thy Spirit divine.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Why doth the devil then usurp on me?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Why doth he steal, nay ravish, that’s Thy right?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Except Thou rise and for Thine own work fight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O! I shall soon despair, when I shall see",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.",
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