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    "text": "Father, part of His double interest",
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    "text": "Unto Thy kingdom Thy Son gives to me;",
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    "text": "His jointure in the knotty Trinity",
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    "text": "He keeps, and gives to me his death’s conquest.",
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    "text": "This Lamb, whose death with life the world hath blest,",
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    "text": "Was from the world’s beginning slain, and He",
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    "text": "Of His and Thy kingdom do thy sons invest.",
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    "text": "Yet such are these laws, that men argue yet",
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    "text": "Whether a man those statutes can fulfil.",
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    "text": "None doth; but thy all-healing grace and Spirit",
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    "text": "Thy law’s abridgement, and Thy last command",
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