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    "text": "The God who once to Isr’el spoke",
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    "text": "From Sinai’s top in fire and smoke,",
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    "text": "In gentler strains of gospel grace",
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    "text": "Invites us now to seek his face.",
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    "text": "He wears no terrors on his brow;",
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    "text": "He speaks in love from Zion now;",
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    "text": "It is the voice of Jesus’ blood,",
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    "text": "Calling poor wand’rers home to God.",
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    "text": "The holy Moses quaked and fear’d",
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    "text": "When Sinai’s thund’ring law he heard:",
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    "text": "But reigning grace, with accents mild,",
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    "text": "Speaks to the sinner as a child.",
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    "text": "Hark! how from Calvary it sounds,",
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    "text": "From the Redeemer’s bleeding wounds!",
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    "text": "“Pardon and grace I freely give;",
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    "text": "Poor sinner, look to me and live.”",
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    "text": "What other arguments can move",
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    "text": "The heart that slights a Saviour’s love!",
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    "text": "Yet till almighty power constrain,",
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    "text": "This matchless love is preach’d in vain.",
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    "text": "Saviour, let that power be felt,",
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    "text": "And cause each stony heart to melt!",
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    "text": "Deeply impress upon our youth",
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    "text": "The light and force of gospel truth.",
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    "text": "With this new year may they begin",
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    "text": "To live to thee, and die to sin;",
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    "text": "To enter by the narrow way",
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    "text": "Which leads to everlasting day.",
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    "text": "How will they else thy presence bear",
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    "text": "When as a Judge thou shalt appear!",
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    "text": "When slighted love to wrath shall turn,",
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    "text": "And the whole earth like Sinai burn!",
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