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 "title": "Humiliation and Praise",
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 "poet": "John Newton",
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    "text": "When the wounded spirit hears",
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   {
    "text": "The voice of Jesus blood,",
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   {
    "text": "How the message stops the tears",
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   {
    "text": "Which else in vain had flow’d!",
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    "text": "Pardon, grace, and peace proclaim’d,",
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    "text": "And the sinner call’d a child;",
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    "text": "Then the stubborn heart is tamed,",
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    "text": "Renewed and reconciled.",
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    "text": "Oh! ’twas grace indeed to spare",
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   {
    "text": "And save a wretch like me!",
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    "text": "Men or angels could not bear",
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   {
    "text": "What I have offer’d thee!",
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    "text": "Were thy bolts at their command,",
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   {
    "text": "Hell ere now had been my place;",
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    "text": "Thou alone couldst silent stand",
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    "text": "And wait to show thy grace.",
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    "text": "If, in one created mind,",
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    "text": "The tenderness and love",
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   {
    "text": "Of thy saints on earth were join’d",
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    "text": "With all the hosts above;",
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    "text": "Still that love were weak and poor,",
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    "text": "If compared, my Lord, with thine;",
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    "text": "Far too scanty to endure",
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    "text": "A heart so vile as mine.",
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    "text": "Wondrous mercy I have found,",
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    "text": "But, ah, how faint my praise!",
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   {
    "text": "Must I be a cumber-ground,",
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   {
    "text": "Unfruitful all my days?",
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   {
    "text": "Do I in thy garden grow,",
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   {
    "text": "Yet produce thee only leaves?",
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   {
    "text": "Lord, forbid it should be so!",
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    "text": "The thought my spirit grieves.",
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    "text": "Heavy charges Satan brings",
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   {
    "text": "To fill me with distress;",
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   {
    "text": "Let me hide beneath thy wings,",
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   {
    "text": "And plead thy righteousness:",
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   {
    "text": "Lord, to thee for help I call;",
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   {
    "text": "’Tis thy promise bids me come;",
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   {
    "text": "Tell him thou hast paid for all,",
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   {
    "text": "And that shall strike him dumb.",
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