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    "text": "Here at Bethesda’s pool, the poor,",
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    "text": "Here streams of wondrous virtue flow,",
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    "text": "The dumb break forth in songs of praise,",
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    "text": "The cripple runs in wisdom’s ways,",
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    "text": "Restrain’d to no one case or time,",
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    "text": "These waters always move;",
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    "text": "Sinners in every age and clime",
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    "text": "Yet numbers daily near them lie,",
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    "text": "Who meet with no relief;",
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    "text": "With life in view they pine and die",
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    "text": "’Tis strange they should refuse to bathe.",
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    "text": "And yet frequent the pool;",
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    "text": "But none can even wish for faith,",
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    "text": "While love of sin bears rule.",
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    "text": "Satan their consciences has seal’d",
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    "text": "And stupifies their thought;",
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    "text": "For were they willing to be heal’d,",
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    "text": "The cure would soon be wrought.",
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    "text": "Do thou, dear Saviour, interpose,",
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    "text": "Their stubborn wills constrain;",
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    "text": "Or else to them the water flows",
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    "text": "And grace is preached in vain.",
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