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 "title": "Look Unto Me, and Be Ye Saved",
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   {
    "text": "As the serpent raised by Moses",
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   {
    "text": "Heal’d the burning serpent’s bite,",
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   {
    "text": "Jesus thus himself discloses",
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   {
    "text": "To the wounded sinner’s sight:",
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   {
    "text": "Hear his gracious invitation,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“I have life and peace to give⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "I have wrought out full salvation;",
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    "text": "Sinner, look to me and live.",
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   {
    "text": "“Pore upon your sins no longer,",
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   {
    "text": "Well I know their mighty guilt;",
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   {
    "text": "But my love than death is stronger,",
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   {
    "text": "I my blood have freely spilt:",
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   {
    "text": "Though your heart has long been harden’d,",
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   {
    "text": "Look on me⁠—it soft shall grow;",
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   {
    "text": "Past transgressions shall be pardon’d,",
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   {
    "text": "And I’ll wash you white as snow.",
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   {
    "text": "“I have seen what you were doing,",
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   {
    "text": "Though you little thought of me;",
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   {
    "text": "You were madly bent on ruin,",
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   {
    "text": "But I said⁠—It shall not be:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You had been for ever wretched,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Had I not espoused your part;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Now behold my arms outstretched",
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   {
    "text": "To receive you to my heart.",
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   {
    "text": "“Well may shame and joy and wonder",
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   {
    "text": "All your inward passions move;",
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   {
    "text": "I could crush thee with my thunder,",
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   {
    "text": "But I speak to thee in love:",
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   {
    "text": "See! your sins are all forgiven⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I have paid the countless sum!",
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   {
    "text": "Now my death has open’d heaven,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thither you shall shortly come.”",
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    "text": "Dearest Saviour, we adore thee",
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   {
    "text": "For thy precious life and death;",
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   {
    "text": "Melt each stubborn heart before thee,",
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   {
    "text": "Give us all the eye of faith:",
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   {
    "text": "From the law’s condemning sentence,",
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   {
    "text": "To thy mercy we appeal;",
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   {
    "text": "Thou alone canst give repentance,",
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   {
    "text": "Thou alone our souls canst heal.",
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