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    "text": "Does the gospel-word proclaim",
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   {
    "text": "Rest for those who weary be?",
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   {
    "text": "Then my soul put in thy claim,",
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   {
    "text": "Sure that promise speaks to thee:",
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    "text": "Marks of grace I cannot show,",
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    "text": "All polluted is my best;",
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    "text": "Yet I weary am, I know,",
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    "text": "And the weary long for rest.",
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    "text": "Burden’d with a load of sin,",
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    "text": "Harass’d with tormenting doubt,",
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    "text": "Hourly conflicts from within,",
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    "text": "Hourly crosses from without:",
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    "text": "All my little strength is gone,",
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    "text": "Sink I must without supply;",
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    "text": "Sure upon the earth is none",
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    "text": "Can more weary be than I.",
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    "text": "In the ark the weary dove",
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    "text": "Found a welcome resting-place;",
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    "text": "Thus my spirit longs to prove",
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    "text": "Rest in Christ, the ark of grace:",
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    "text": "Tempest-toss’d I long have been,",
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    "text": "And the flood increases fast,",
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    "text": "Open, Lord, and take me in",
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    "text": "Till the storm be overpast.",
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    "text": "Safely lodged within thy breast,",
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    "text": "What a wondrous change I find!",
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    "text": "Now I know thy promised rest",
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    "text": "Can compose a troubled mind.",
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    "text": "You that weary are like me;",
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    "text": "Hearken to the gospel call,",
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    "text": "To the ark for refuge flee,",
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    "text": "Jesus will receive you all!",
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