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    "text": "’Tis a point I long to know,",
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   {
    "text": "Oft it causes anxious thought⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Do I love the Lord, or no?",
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    "text": "Am I his, or am I not?",
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    "text": "If I love, why am I thus?",
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    "text": "Why this dull, this lifeless frame?",
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    "text": "Hardly sure can they be worse",
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    "text": "Who have never heard his name!",
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    "text": "Could my heart so hard remain,",
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    "text": "Pray’r a task and burden prove,",
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    "text": "Every trifle give me pain,",
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    "text": "If I knew a Saviour’s love?",
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    "text": "When I turn my eyes within,",
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    "text": "All is dark and vain and wild:",
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    "text": "Fill’d with unbelief and sin,",
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    "text": "Can I deem myself a child?",
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    "text": "If I pray or hear or read,",
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    "text": "Sin is mix’d with all I do;",
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   {
    "text": "You that love the Lord indeed,",
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    "text": "Tell me, is it thus with you?",
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    "text": "Yet I mourn my stubborn will,",
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    "text": "Find my sin a grief and thrall:",
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   {
    "text": "Should I grieve for what I feel,",
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    "text": "If I did not love at all?",
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    "text": "Could I joy his saints to meet,",
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    "text": "Choose the ways I once abhorr’d,",
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    "text": "Find, at times, the promise sweet,",
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   {
    "text": "If I did not love the Lord?",
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    "text": "Lord, decide the doubtful case!",
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   {
    "text": "Thou who art thy people’s sun,",
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   {
    "text": "Shine upon thy work of grace,",
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   {
    "text": "If it be indeed begun.",
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    "text": "Let me love thee more and more,",
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   {
    "text": "If I love at all, I pray;",
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   {
    "text": "If I have not loved before,",
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   {
    "text": "Help me to begin to-day.",
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