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 "poet": "John Newton",
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 "container": "I Solemn Addresses to Sinners",
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    "text": "Sinners, hear the Saviour’s call,",
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   {
    "text": "He now is passing by;",
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    "text": "He has seen thy grievous thrall,",
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    "text": "And heard thy mournful cry.",
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    "text": "He has pardons to impart,",
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    "text": "Grace to save thee from thy fears;",
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    "text": "See the love that fills his heart,",
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    "text": "And wipe away thy tears.",
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    "text": "Why art thou afraid to come",
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    "text": "And tell him all thy case?",
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    "text": "He will not pronounce thy doom,",
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    "text": "Nor frown thee from his face;",
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    "text": "Wilt thou fear Emmanuel?",
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    "text": "Wilt thou dread the Lamb of God,",
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    "text": "Who to save thy soul from hell,",
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    "text": "Has shed his precious blood?",
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    "text": "Think how on the cross he hung,",
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    "text": "Pierced with a thousand wounds!",
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    "text": "Hark from each, as with a tongue",
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    "text": "The voice of pardon sounds!",
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    "text": "See from all his bursting veins,",
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   {
    "text": "Blood of wondrous virtue flow!",
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    "text": "Shed to wash away thy stains,",
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    "text": "And ransom thee from woe.",
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    "text": "Though his majesty be great,",
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    "text": "His mercy is no less;",
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    "text": "Though he thy transgressions hate,",
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    "text": "He feels for thy distress:",
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   {
    "text": "By himself the Lord has sworn,",
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    "text": "He delights not in thy death;",
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   {
    "text": "But invites thee to return,",
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    "text": "That thou may’st live by faith.",
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    "text": "Raise thy downcast eyes, and see",
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    "text": "What throngs his throne surround!",
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   {
    "text": "These, though sinners once like thee,",
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   {
    "text": "Have full salvation found:",
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   {
    "text": "Yield not then to unbelief,",
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   {
    "text": "While he says, “There yet is room;",
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   {
    "text": "Though of sinners, thou art chief,",
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   {
    "text": "Since Jesus calls thee, come.”",
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