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   {
    "text": "With Satan, my accuser, near,",
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   {
    "text": "My spirit trembled when I saw",
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   {
    "text": "The Lord in majesty appear,",
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    "text": "And heard the language of his law.",
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    "text": "In vain I wish’d and strove to hide",
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    "text": "The tatter’d filthy rags I wore:",
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    "text": "While my fierce foe insulting cried,",
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   {
    "text": "“See what you trusted in before!”",
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    "text": "Struck dumb, and left without a plea,",
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    "text": "I heard my gracious Saviour say,",
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    "text": "“Know, Satan, I this sinner free⁠—",
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    "text": "“This is a brand which I in love",
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    "text": "To save from wrath and sin design;",
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    "text": "In vain thy accusations prove;",
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    "text": "I answer all, and claim him mine.”",
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    "text": "At this rebuke the tempter fled;",
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    "text": "Then He removed my filthy dress;",
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   {
    "text": "“Poor sinner, take this robe,” He said,",
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   {
    "text": "“It is thy Saviour’s righteousness.",
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    "text": "“And see a crown of life prepared!",
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    "text": "That I might thus thy head adorn;",
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   {
    "text": "I thought no shame of suff’ring hard,",
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    "text": "But wore for thee a crown of thorn.”",
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    "text": "O, how I heard these gracious words!",
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    "text": "They broke and heal’d my heart at once;",
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    "text": "Constrained me to become the Lord’s,",
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    "text": "And all my idol-gods renounce.",
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    "text": "Now, Satan, thou hast lost thy aim;",
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    "text": "Against this brand thy threats are vain;",
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   {
    "text": "Jesus has pluck’d it from the flame,",
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   {
    "text": "And who shall put it in again?",
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