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 "title": "I Will Trust and Not Be Afraid",
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    "text": "Begone, unbelief,",
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    "text": "My Saviour is near,",
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    "text": "And for my relief",
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    "text": "Will surely appear:",
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    "text": "By pray’r let me wrestle,",
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    "text": "And he will perform;",
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    "text": "With Christ in the vessel,",
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    "text": "I smile at the storm.",
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    "text": "Though dark be my way,",
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    "text": "Since he is my guide,",
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    "text": "’Tis mine to obey,",
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    "text": "’Tis his to provide;",
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    "text": "Though cisterns be broken,",
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    "text": "And creatures all fail,",
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    "text": "The word he has spoken",
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    "text": "Will surely prevail.",
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    "text": "His love in time past",
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    "text": "Forbids me to think",
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    "text": "He’ll leave me at last",
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    "text": "In trouble to sink;",
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    "text": "Each sweet Ebenezer",
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    "text": "I have in review",
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    "text": "Confirms his good pleasure",
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    "text": "To help me quite through.",
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    "text": "Determined to save,",
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    "text": "He watch’d o’er my path,",
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    "text": "When, Satan’s blind slave,",
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    "text": "I sported with death;",
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    "text": "And can he have taught me",
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    "text": "To trust in his name,",
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    "text": "And thus far have brought me,",
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    "text": "To put me to shame?",
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    "text": "Why should I complain",
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    "text": "Of want or distress,",
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    "text": "Temptation or pain?",
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    "text": "He told me no less:",
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    "text": "The heirs of salvation,",
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    "text": "I know from his word,",
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    "text": "Through much tribulation",
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    "text": "Must follow their Lord.",
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    "text": "How bitter that cup,",
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    "text": "No heart can conceive,",
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    "text": "Which he drank quite up,",
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    "text": "That sinners might live!",
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    "text": "His way was much rougher",
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    "text": "And darker than mine;",
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    "text": "Did Jesus thus suffer,",
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    "text": "And shall I repine?",
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    "text": "Since all that I meet",
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    "text": "Shall work for my good,",
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    "text": "The bitter is sweet,",
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    "text": "The med’cine is food;",
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    "text": "Though painful at present,",
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    "text": "Twill cease before long,",
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   {
    "text": "And then, O! how pleasant",
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    "text": "The conqueror’s song!",
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