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    "text": "Isr’el, in ancient days,",
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   {
    "text": "Not only had a view",
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   {
    "text": "Of Sinai in a blaze,",
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   {
    "text": "But learn’d the gospel too:",
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   {
    "text": "The types and figures were a glass",
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   {
    "text": "In which they saw a Saviour’s face.",
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    "text": "The paschal sacrifice,",
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    "text": "And blood be-sprinkled door,",
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    "text": "Seen with enlighten’d eyes,",
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    "text": "And once applied with power,",
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    "text": "Would teach the need of other blood",
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    "text": "To reconcile an angry God.",
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    "text": "The Lamb, the Dove, set forth",
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    "text": "His perfect innocence,",
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    "text": "Whose blood of matchless worth",
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    "text": "Should be the soul’s defence:",
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   {
    "text": "For He who can for sin atone",
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    "text": "Must have no failings of his own.",
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    "text": "The scape-goat on his head",
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    "text": "The people’s trespass bore,",
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    "text": "And to the desert led,",
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   {
    "text": "Was to be seen no more:",
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   {
    "text": "In him our Surety seem’d to say,",
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   {
    "text": "“Behold! I bear your sins away.”",
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    "text": "Dipt in his fellow’s blood,",
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   {
    "text": "The living bird went free;",
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   {
    "text": "The type, well understood,",
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    "text": "Express’d the sinner’s plea;",
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    "text": "Described a guilty soul enlarged,",
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    "text": "And by a Saviour’s death discharged.",
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    "text": "Jesus, I love to trace",
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    "text": "Throughout the sacred page",
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    "text": "The footsteps of thy grace,",
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   {
    "text": "The same in every age!",
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   {
    "text": "O grant that I may faithful be",
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   {
    "text": "To clearer light vouchsafed to me!",
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