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    "text": "Thy message by the preacher seal,",
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    "text": "And let thy power be known,",
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    "text": "That every sinner here may feel",
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    "text": "The word is not his own.",
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    "text": "Amongst the foremost of the throng",
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    "text": "He in rebellion stood too long,",
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    "text": "But grace prevail’d, he mercy found,",
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    "text": "And now by thee is sent,",
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    "text": "In Jesus God is reconciled,",
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    "text": "The worst may be forgiven;",
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    "text": "Come, and he’ll own you as a child,",
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    "text": "O may the word of gospel truth",
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    "text": "Your chief desires engage!",
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    "text": "And Jesus be your guide in youth,",
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    "text": "Perhaps the year that’s now begun",
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    "text": "May prove to some their last;",
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    "text": "The sands of life may soon be run,",
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    "text": "Think, if you slight this embassy,",
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    "text": "And will not warning take,",
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    "text": "When Jesus in the clouds you see,",
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    "text": "What answer will you make?",
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