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    "text": "Cheer up, my soul, there is a mercy-seat,",
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   {
    "text": "Sprinkled with blood, where Jesus answers pray’r;",
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   {
    "text": "There humbly cast thyself beneath his feet,",
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    "text": "For never needy sinner perish’d there.",
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    "text": "Lord, I am come! thy promise is my plea.",
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    "text": "Without thy word I durst not venture nigh!",
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    "text": "But thou hast call’d the burden’d soul to thee,",
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    "text": "A weary burden’d soul, Lord, am I!",
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    "text": "Bow’d down beneath a heavy load of sin,",
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   {
    "text": "By Satan’s fierce temptations sorely press’d,",
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    "text": "Beset without, and full of fears within,",
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    "text": "Trembling and faint, I come to thee for rest.",
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    "text": "Be thou my refuge, Lord, my hiding-place!",
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    "text": "I know no force can tear me from thy side;",
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   {
    "text": "Unmoved I then may all accusers face,",
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    "text": "And answer every charge with “Jesus died.”",
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    "text": "Yes, thou didst weep and bleed and groan and die⁠—",
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    "text": "Well hast thou known what fierce temptations mean⁠—",
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    "text": "Such was thy love, and now, enthroned on high,",
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    "text": "The same compassions in thy bosom reign.",
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   {
    "text": "Lord, give me faith⁠—he hears⁠—what grace is this!",
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    "text": "Dry up thy tears, my soul, and cease to grieve:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He shows me what he did, and who he is,",
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    "text": "I must, I will, I can, I do believe.",
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