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    "text": "Jesus Christ, the Lord’s Anointed,",
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    "text": "Who his blood for sinners spilt,",
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    "text": "Is the Stone by God appointed,",
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    "text": "And the church is on him built:",
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    "text": "He delivers all who trust him from their guilt.",
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    "text": "Many eyes at once are fix’d",
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    "text": "On a person so divine;",
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    "text": "Love, with awful justice mix’d,",
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    "text": "In his great redemption shine:",
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    "text": "Mighty Jesus! give me leave to call thee mine.",
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    "text": "By the Father’s eye approved,",
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    "text": "Lo, a voice is heard from heaven,",
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    "text": "“Sinners, this is my Beloved,",
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    "text": "For your ransom freely given:",
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    "text": "All offences for his sake shall be forgiven,”",
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    "text": "Angels with their eyes pursued him",
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    "text": "When he left his glorious throne;",
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    "text": "With astonishment they view’d him",
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    "text": "Put the form of servant on;",
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    "text": "Angels worshipp’d Him who was on earth unknown.",
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    "text": "Satan and his host, amazed,",
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    "text": "Saw this Stone in Zion laid;",
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    "text": "Jesus, though to death abased,",
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    "text": "Bruised the subtle Serpent’s head",
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    "text": "When, to save us, on the cross his blood he shed.",
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    "text": "When a guilty sinner sees him,",
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    "text": "While he looks his soul is heal’d;",
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    "text": "Soon this sight from anguish frees him,",
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    "text": "And imparts a pardon seal’d:",
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    "text": "May this Saviour be to all our hearts reveal’d!",
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    "text": "With desire and admiration,",
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    "text": "All his blood-bought flock behold",
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    "text": "Him who wrought out their salvation,",
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    "text": "And enclosed them in his fold:",
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    "text": "Yet their warmest love and praises are too cold.",
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    "text": "By the eye of carnal reason",
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    "text": "Many view him with disdain;",
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    "text": "How will they abide the season",
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   {
    "text": "When he comes with all his train?",
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    "text": "To escape him then they’ll wish, but wish in vain.",
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    "text": "How their hearts will melt and tremble",
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    "text": "When they hear his awful voice",
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    "text": "But his saints he’ll then assemble,",
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    "text": "As his portion and his choice,",
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    "text": "And receive them to his everlasting joys.",
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