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 "title": "What Think Ye of Christ?",
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 "poet": "John Newton",
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    "text": "What think you of Christ is the test",
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   {
    "text": "To try both your state and your scheme;",
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   {
    "text": "You cannot be right in the rest",
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   {
    "text": "Unless you think rightly of him.",
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   {
    "text": "As Jesus appears in your view,",
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   {
    "text": "As he is beloved or not,",
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   {
    "text": "So God is disposed to you,",
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    "text": "And mercy or wrath are your lot.",
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    "text": "Some take him a creature to be,",
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   {
    "text": "A man, or an angel at most:",
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   {
    "text": "Sure these have not feelings like me,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor know themselves wretched and lost.",
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   {
    "text": "So guilty, so helpless am I,",
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   {
    "text": "I durst not confide in his blood,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor on his protection rely,",
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   {
    "text": "Unless I were sure he is God.",
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    "text": "Some call him a Saviour in word,",
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   {
    "text": "But mix their own works with his plan;",
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   {
    "text": "And hope he his help will afford,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When they have done all that they can:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If doings prove rather too light,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(A little, they own, they may fail,)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They purpose to make up full weight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "By casting his name in the scale.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Some style him the pearl of great price,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And say he’s the fountain of joys;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet feed upon folly and vice,",
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   {
    "text": "And cleave to the world and its toys;",
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   {
    "text": "Like Judas, the Saviour they kiss,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And while they salute him, betray;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ah! what will profession like this",
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   {
    "text": "Avail in his terrible day?",
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   {
    "text": "If ask’d what of Jesus I think⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Though still my best thoughts are but poor,",
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   {
    "text": "I say he’s my meat and my drink,",
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   {
    "text": "My life and my strength and my store;",
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   {
    "text": "My Shepherd, my Husband, my Friend,",
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   {
    "text": "My Saviour from sin and from thrall,",
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   {
    "text": "My hope from beginning to end,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My portion, my Lord, and my all.",
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