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    "text": "Salvation! what a glorious plan!",
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    "text": "How suited to our need!",
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    "text": "’Twas Wisdom form’d the vast design,",
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    "text": "The holy cov’nant seal’d;",
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    "text": "And yet the sinner lives by faith,",
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