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    "text": "Yes! since God himself has said it,",
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    "text": "On the promise I rely;",
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    "text": "His good word demands my credit,",
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    "text": "What can unbelief reply;",
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    "text": "He is strong, and can fulfill;",
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    "text": "He is truth, and therefore will.",
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    "text": "As to all the doubts and questions",
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    "text": "Which my spirit often grieve,",
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    "text": "These are Satan’s sly suggestions,",
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    "text": "And I need no answer give.",
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    "text": "He would fain destroy my hope,",
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    "text": "But the promise bears it up.",
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    "text": "Sure the Lord thus far has brought me",
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    "text": "By his watchful tender care;",
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    "text": "Sure ’tis he himself has taught me",
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    "text": "How to seek his face by pray’r:",
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    "text": "After so much mercy past,",
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    "text": "Will he give me up at last?",
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    "text": "True, I’ve been a foolish creature,",
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    "text": "And have sinn’d against his grace!",
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    "text": "But forgiveness is his nature,",
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    "text": "Though he justly hides his face;",
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    "text": "Ere he call’d me, well he knew",
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    "text": "What a heart like mine would do.",
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    "text": "In my Saviour’s intercession",
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    "text": "Therefore I will still confide;",
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    "text": "Lord, accept my free confession,",
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    "text": "I have sinn’d but thou hast died:",
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    "text": "This is all I have to plead,",
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    "text": "This is all the plea I need.",
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