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 "title": "Private Judgment",
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    "text": "Poor wand’rers, ye are sore distress’d",
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   {
    "text": "To find that path which Christ has bless’d,",
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    "text": "Track’d by His saintly throng;",
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    "text": "Each claims to trust his own weak will,",
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   {
    "text": "Blind idol!⁠—so ye languish still,",
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    "text": "All wranglers and all wrong.",
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    "text": "He saw of old, and met your need,",
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   {
    "text": "Granting you prophets of His creed,",
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    "text": "The throes of fear to swage;",
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    "text": "They fenced the rich bequest He made,",
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    "text": "And sacred hands have safe convey’d",
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    "text": "Wand’rers! come home! obey the call!",
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    "text": "A Mother pleads, who ne’er let fall",
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    "text": "One grain of Holy Truth;",
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    "text": "Warn you and win she shall and must,",
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    "text": "For now she lifts her from the dust,",
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