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    "text": "How lost was my condition",
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   {
    "text": "Till Jesus made me whole!",
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    "text": "There is but one Physician",
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    "text": "Can cure a sin-sick soul!",
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    "text": "Next door to death he found me,",
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    "text": "And snatch’d me from the grave",
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    "text": "To tell to all around me",
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    "text": "His wondrous power to save.",
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    "text": "The worst of all diseases",
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    "text": "Is light compared with sin;",
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    "text": "On every part it seizes,",
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    "text": "But rages most within:",
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    "text": "’Tis palsy, dropsy, fever,",
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    "text": "And madness⁠—all combined;",
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    "text": "And none but a believer",
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    "text": "The least relief can find.",
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    "text": "From men great skill professing",
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    "text": "I thought a cure to gain;",
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    "text": "But this proved more distressing,",
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    "text": "And added to my pain:",
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    "text": "Some said that nothing ail’d me,",
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    "text": "Some gave me up for lost;",
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    "text": "Thus every refuge fail’d me,",
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    "text": "And all my hopes were cross’d.",
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    "text": "At length this great Physician,",
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    "text": "How matchless is his grace!",
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    "text": "Accepted my petition,",
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    "text": "And undertook my case;",
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    "text": "First gave me sight to view him,",
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    "text": "For sin my sight had seal’d,",
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    "text": "Then bid me look unto him⁠—",
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    "text": "I look’d, and I was heal’d.",
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    "text": "A dying, risen Jesus,",
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    "text": "Seen by the eye of faith,",
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    "text": "At once from anguish frees us,",
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    "text": "And saves the soul from death:",
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    "text": "Come then to this Physician,",
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    "text": "His help he’ll freely give,",
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    "text": "He makes no hard condition,",
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    "text": "’Tis only⁠—look and live.",
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