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 "title": "Praise for Redeeming Love",
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 "poet": "John Newton",
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   {
    "text": "Let us love and sing and wonder,",
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   {
    "text": "Let us praise the Saviour’s name!",
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   {
    "text": "He has hush’d the Law’s loud thunder,",
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   {
    "text": "He has quench’d mount Sinai’s flame:",
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    "text": "He has wash’d us with his blood,",
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   {
    "text": "He has brought us nigh to God.",
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    "text": "Let us love the Lord who bought us,",
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    "text": "Pitied us when enemies,",
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    "text": "Call’d us by his grace, and taught us,",
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    "text": "Gave us ears, and gave us eyes:",
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    "text": "He has wash’d us with his blood,",
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    "text": "He presents our souls to God.",
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    "text": "Let us sing, though fierce temptation",
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    "text": "Threaten hard to bear us down!",
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    "text": "For the Lord, our strong salvation,",
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   {
    "text": "Holds in view the conq’ror’s crown:",
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   {
    "text": "He, who wash’d us with his blood,",
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   {
    "text": "Soon will bring us home to God.",
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    "text": "Let us wonder, grace and justice",
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   {
    "text": "Join, and point to mercy’s store;",
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    "text": "When through grace in Christ our trust is,",
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   {
    "text": "Justice smiles, and asks no more:",
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    "text": "He who wash’d us with his blood",
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    "text": "Has secured our way to God.",
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    "text": "Let us praise, and join the chorus",
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   {
    "text": "Of the saints enthroned on high;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here they trusted him before us,",
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   {
    "text": "Now their praises fill the sky:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Thou hast wash’d us with thy blood,",
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   {
    "text": "Thou art worthy, Lamb of God!”",
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   {
    "text": "Hark! the name of Jesus sounded",
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   {
    "text": "Loud from golden harps above!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lord, we blush, and are confounded,",
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   {
    "text": "Faint our praises, cold our love!",
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   {
    "text": "Wash our souls and songs with blood,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For by thee we come to God.",
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