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    "text": "Though sore beset with guilt and fear,",
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    "text": "I cannot, dare not, quite despair;",
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    "text": "If I must perish, would the Lord",
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    "text": "Have taught my heart to love his word:",
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    "text": "Would he have given me eyes to see",
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    "text": "My danger and my remedy;",
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    "text": "Reveal’d his name, and bid me pray,",
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    "text": "Had he resolved to say me nay?",
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    "text": "No though cast down, I am not slain!",
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    "text": "I fall, but I shall rise again;",
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    "text": "The present, Satan, is thy hour,",
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    "text": "But Jesus shall control thy pow’r:",
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    "text": "His love will plead for my relief,",
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    "text": "He hears my groans, he sees my grief;",
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    "text": "Nor will he suffer thee to boast",
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    "text": "A soul that sought his help was lost,",
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    "text": "’Tis true, I have unfaithful been,",
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    "text": "And grieved his Spirit by my sin;",
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    "text": "Yet still his mercy he’ll reveal,",
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    "text": "And all my wounds and follies heal:",
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    "text": "Abounding sin I must confess,",
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    "text": "But more abounding is his grace:",
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    "text": "He once vouchsafed for me to bleed,",
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    "text": "And now he lives my cause to plead.",
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    "text": "I’ll cast myself before his feet,",
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    "text": "I see him on his mercy-seat,",
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    "text": "(’Tis sprinkled with atoning blood);",
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    "text": "There sinners find access to God:",
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    "text": "Ye burden’d souls, approach with me,",
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    "text": "And make the Saviour’s name your plea:",
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    "text": "Jesus will pardon all who come,",
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    "text": "And strike your fierce accuser dumb.",
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