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 "title": "Looking Unto Jesus",
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    "text": "By various maxims, forms, and rules,",
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    "text": "That pass for wisdom in the schools,",
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    "text": "I strove my passion to restrain;",
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    "text": "But all my efforts proved in vain.",
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    "text": "But since the Saviour I have known,",
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    "text": "My rules are all reduced to one,",
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    "text": "To keep my Lord by faith in view;",
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    "text": "This strength supplies and motives too.",
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    "text": "I see him lead a suff’ring life,",
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    "text": "Patient amidst reproach and strife;",
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    "text": "And from his pattern courage take",
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    "text": "Upon the cross I see him bleed,",
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    "text": "And by the sight from guilt am freed;",
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    "text": "This sight destroys the life of sin,",
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    "text": "To look to Jesus as he rose,",
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    "text": "Confirms my faith, disarms my foes;",
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    "text": "Satan I shame and overcome,",
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    "text": "By pointing to my Saviour’s tomb.",
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    "text": "Exalted on his glorious throne,",
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    "text": "I see him make my cause his own;",
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    "text": "Then all my anxious cares subside,",
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    "text": "For Jesus lives, and will provide.",
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    "text": "I see him look with pity down,",
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    "text": "And hold in view the conq’ror’s crown.",
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    "text": "If press’d with griefs and cares before,",
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    "text": "My soul revives, nor asks for more.",
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    "text": "By faith I see the hour at hand,",
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    "text": "When in his presence I shall stand;",
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    "text": "Then it will be my endless bliss",
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    "text": "To see him where and as he is.",
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