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 "title": "The Rebel’s Surrender to Grace.⁠–⁠Lord, What Wilt Thou Have Me to Do?",
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 "poet": "John Newton",
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  "year": 1779,
  "venue": "Olney Hymns (1779)",
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   {
    "text": "Lord, thou hast won⁠—at length I yield⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "My heart, by mighty grace compell’d,",
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   {
    "text": "Surrenders all to thee;",
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   {
    "text": "Against thy terrors long I strove,",
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   {
    "text": "But who can stand against thy love?",
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   {
    "text": "Love conquers even me.",
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    "text": "All that a wretch could do I tried⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Thy patience scorn’d, thy power defied,",
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   {
    "text": "And trampled on thy laws:",
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   {
    "text": "Scarcely thy martyrs at the stake",
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   {
    "text": "Could stand more steadfast for thy sake",
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   {
    "text": "Than I in Satan’s cause.",
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    "text": "But since thou hast thy love reveal’d,",
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    "text": "And shown my soul a pardon seal’d,",
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   {
    "text": "I can resist no more:",
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    "text": "Couldst thou for such a sinner bleed?",
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    "text": "Canst thou for such a rebel plead?",
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   {
    "text": "I wonder and adore!",
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    "text": "If thou hadst bid thy thunders roll,",
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   {
    "text": "And lightnings flash, to blast my soul,",
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   {
    "text": "I still had stubborn been;",
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   {
    "text": "But mercy has my heart subdued⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "A bleeding Saviour I have view’d,",
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   {
    "text": "And now I hate my sin.",
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  ],
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    "text": "Now, Lord, I would be thine alone;",
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   {
    "text": "Come, take possession of thine own,",
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   {
    "text": "For thou hast set me free:",
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   {
    "text": "Released from Satan’s hard command,",
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   {
    "text": "See all my powers waiting stand",
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   {
    "text": "To be employed by thee.",
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   {
    "text": "My will conform’d to thine would move;",
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   {
    "text": "On thee, my hope, desire, and love,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In fix’d attention join;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My hands, my eyes, my ears, my tongue,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Have Satan’s servants been too long,",
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   {
    "text": "But now they shall be thine.",
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    "text": "And can I be the very same",
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   {
    "text": "Who lately durst blaspheme thy name,",
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   {
    "text": "And on thy gospel tread?",
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   {
    "text": "Surely each one who hears my case",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Will praise thee and confess thy grace",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Invincible indeed!",
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