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    "text": "Alas! by nature how depraved,",
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    "text": "How prone to every ill!",
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    "text": "Our lives to Satan how enslaved,",
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    "text": "And can such sinners be restored,",
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    "text": "Such rebels reconciled?",
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    "text": "Can grace itself the means afford",
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    "text": "To make a foe a child?",
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    "text": "Yes, grace has found the wondrous means",
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    "text": "Which shall effectual prove,",
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    "text": "To cleanse us from our countless sins,",
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    "text": "Jesus for sinners undertakes,",
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    "text": "His blood a full atonement makes,",
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    "text": "Yet one thing more must grace provide,",
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    "text": "To bring us home to God,",
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    "text": "Or we shall slight the Lord who died,",
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    "text": "The Holy Spirit must reveal",
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    "text": "Then the hard heart begins to feel",
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    "text": "A new and heav’nly birth.",
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    "text": "Thus bought with blood and born again,",
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    "text": "Redeem’d and saved by grace,",
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    "text": "Rebels in God’s own house obtain",
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    "text": "A son’s and daughter’s place.",
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