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    "text": "Approach, my soul, the mercy-seat",
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    "text": "Where Jesus answers pray’r;",
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    "text": "There humbly fall before his feet,",
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    "text": "For none can perish there.",
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    "text": "Thy promise is my only plea,",
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    "text": "With this I venture nigh:",
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    "text": "Thou callest burden’d souls to thee,",
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    "text": "And such, O Lord, am I.",
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    "text": "Bow’d down beneath a load of sin,",
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    "text": "By Satan sorely press’d;",
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    "text": "By war without and fears within,",
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    "text": "Be thou my shield and hiding-place!",
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    "text": "That, shelter’d near thy side,",
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    "text": "I may my fierce accuser face,",
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    "text": "And tell him, Thou hast died.",
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    "text": "Oh wond’rous love, to bleed and die,",
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    "text": "That guilty sinners, such as I,",
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    "text": "“Poor tempest-tossed soul, be still,",
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    "text": "’Tis Jesus speaks⁠—I must, I will,",
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