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    "text": "On man, in his own image made,",
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    "text": "But grace, unask’d, his heart subdued,",
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    "text": "By faith the promised Seed he view’d,",
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    "text": "Thus we ourselves would justify,",
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    "text": "Though we the law transgress⁠—",
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