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 "title": "The Name of Jesus",
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   {
    "text": "How sweet the name of Jesus sounds",
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   {
    "text": "In a believer’s ear!",
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    "text": "It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,",
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    "text": "And drives away his fear.",
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    "text": "It makes the wounded spirit whole,",
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    "text": "And calms the troubl’d breast;",
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    "text": "’Tis manna to the hungry soul,",
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    "text": "And to the weary rest.",
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    "text": "Dear name! the rock on which I build,",
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   {
    "text": "My shield and hiding-place",
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   {
    "text": "My never-failing treas’ry, fill’d",
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    "text": "With boundless stores of grace.",
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    "text": "By thee my pray’rs acceptance gain,",
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    "text": "Although with sin defiled;",
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   {
    "text": "Satan accuses me in vain,",
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   {
    "text": "And I am own’d a child.",
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    "text": "Jesus! my Shepherd, Husband, Friend,",
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    "text": "My Prophet, Priest, and King;",
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    "text": "My Lord, my life, my way, my end,",
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    "text": "Accept the praise I bring.",
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    "text": "Weak is the effort of my heart,",
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   {
    "text": "And cold my warmest thought;",
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   {
    "text": "But when I see thee as thou art",
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    "text": "I’ll praise thee as I ought.",
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    "text": "Till then I would thy love proclaim",
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   {
    "text": "With every fleeting breath;",
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   {
    "text": "And may the music of thy name",
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   {
    "text": "Refresh my soul in death.",
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