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    "text": "There is not on the earth a soul so base",
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    "text": "But may obtain a place",
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    "text": "In covenanted grace;",
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    "text": "So that his feeble prayer of faith obtains",
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    "text": "Some loosening of his chains,",
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    "text": "And earnests of the great release, which rise",
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    "text": "From gift to gift, and reach at length the eternal prize.",
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    "text": "All may save self;⁠—but minds that heavenward tower",
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    "text": "Aim at a wider power,",
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    "text": "Gifts on the world to shower.⁠—",
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    "text": "And this is not at once;⁠—by fastings gain’d,",
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    "text": "And trials well sustain’d,",
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    "text": "By pureness, righteous deeds, and toils of love,",
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    "text": "Abidance in the Truth, and zeal for God above.",
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