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    "text": "Sin enslaved me many years,",
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    "text": "And led me bound and blind,",
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    "text": "Till at length a thousand fears",
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    "text": "Came swarming o’er my mind.",
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    "text": "Where, said I, in deep distress,",
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    "text": "Will these sinful pleasures end?",
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    "text": "How shall I secure my peace,",
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    "text": "And make the Lord my friend?",
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   {
    "text": "Friends and ministers said much,",
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    "text": "The gospel to enforce;",
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    "text": "But my blindness still was such",
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    "text": "I chose a legal course:",
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    "text": "Much I fasted, watch’d, and strove,",
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    "text": "Scarce would show my face abroad,",
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    "text": "Fear’d almost to speak or move,",
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    "text": "A stranger still to God.",
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    "text": "Thus afraid to trust his grace,",
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    "text": "Long time did I rebel,",
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    "text": "Till, despairing of my case,",
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    "text": "Down at his feet I fell:",
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    "text": "Then my stubborn heart he broke,",
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    "text": "And subdued me to his sway,",
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    "text": "By a simple word he spoke,",
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