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    "text": "If to Jesus for relief",
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   {
    "text": "My soul has fled by pray’r,",
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    "text": "Why should I give way to grief,",
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    "text": "Or heart-consuming care?",
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    "text": "Are not all things in his hand?",
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    "text": "Has he not his promise pass’d?",
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    "text": "Will he then regardless stand,",
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    "text": "And let me sink at last?",
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    "text": "While I know his providence",
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    "text": "Disposes each event,",
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    "text": "Shall I judge by feeble sense,",
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    "text": "And yield to discontent?",
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    "text": "If he worms and sparrows feed,",
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    "text": "Clothe the grass in rich array,",
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    "text": "Can he see a child in need,",
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    "text": "And turn his eye away?",
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    "text": "When his name was quite unknown,",
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    "text": "And sin my life employ’d,",
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    "text": "Then he watch’d me as his own,",
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    "text": "Or I had been destroy’d!",
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    "text": "Now his mercy-seat I know.",
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    "text": "Now by grace am reconciled;",
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    "text": "Would he spare me while a foe,",
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    "text": "To leave me when a child?",
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    "text": "If he all my wants supplied",
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    "text": "When I disdain’d to pray;",
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    "text": "Now his Spirit is my guide,",
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    "text": "How can he say me nay?",
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    "text": "If he would not give me up",
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    "text": "When my soul against him fought.",
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    "text": "Will he disappoint the hope",
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    "text": "Which he himself has wrought?",
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    "text": "If he shed his precious blood",
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    "text": "To bring me to his fold,",
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    "text": "Can I think that meaner good",
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    "text": "He ever will withhold?",
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   {
    "text": "Satan, vain is thy device!",
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   {
    "text": "Here my hope rests assured,",
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   {
    "text": "In that great redemption price",
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    "text": "I see the whole secured.",
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