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    "text": "Let us adore the grace that seeks",
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    "text": "To draw our hearts above!",
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    "text": "Attend, ’tis God the Saviour speaks,",
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    "text": "Though fill’d with awe, before his throne",
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    "text": "He claims a people for his own",
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    "text": "Amongst our sinful race.",
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    "text": "Careless, awhile, they live in sin,",
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    "text": "Enslaved to Satan’s power;",
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    "text": "But they obey the call divine",
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    "text": "“Come forth,” He says, “no more pursue",
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    "text": "The paths that lead to death;",
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    "text": "Look up, a bleeding Saviour view;",
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    "text": "“My sons and daughters you shall be",
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    "text": "Through the atoning blood;",
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    "text": "And you shall claim and find in me",
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    "text": "A Father and a God.”",
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    "text": "Lord, speak these words to every heart,",
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    "text": "By thine all-powerful voice;",
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    "text": "That we may now from sin depart,",
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    "text": "If now we learn to seek thy face",
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    "text": "By Christ the living way,",
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    "text": "We’ll praise thee for this hour of grace,",
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    "text": "Through an eternal day.",
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