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    "text": "How soon the Saviour’s gracious call",
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    "text": "Disarm’d the rage of bloody Saul.",
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    "text": "Jesus, the knowledge of thy name",
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    "text": "Changes the lion to a lamb.",
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    "text": "Zaccheus, when he knew the Lord,",
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    "text": "What he had gain’d by wrong restored;",
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    "text": "And of the wealth he prized before,",
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    "text": "He gave the half to feed the poor.",
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    "text": "The woman who so vile had been,",
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    "text": "When brought to weep o’er pardon’d sin,",
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    "text": "Was from her evil ways estranged,",
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    "text": "Then it was mighty, all allow,",
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    "text": "And is it but a notion now?",
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    "text": "Can they whom pride and passion sway,",
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    "text": "Who mammon and the world obey,",
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    "text": "In envy or contention live,",
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    "text": "Presume that they indeed believe?",
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    "text": "True faith unites to Christ the root,",
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    "text": "By him producing holy fruit;",
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    "text": "And they who no such fruit can show,",
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    "text": "Still on the stock of nature grow.",
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    "text": "Lord, let thy word effectual prove",
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    "text": "To work in us obedient love!",
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    "text": "And may each one who hears it, dread",
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    "text": "A name to live, and yet be dead.",
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