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    "text": "Stop, poor sinner! stop and think,",
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   {
    "text": "Before you farther go!",
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    "text": "Will you sport upon the brink",
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    "text": "Of everlasting woe?",
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    "text": "Once again I charge you, stop;",
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    "text": "For unless you warning take,",
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    "text": "Ere you are aware you drop",
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    "text": "Into the burning lake.",
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    "text": "Say, have you an arm like God,",
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    "text": "That you his will oppose?",
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    "text": "Fear you not that iron rod",
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    "text": "With which he breaks his foes?",
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    "text": "Can you stand in that dread day",
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   {
    "text": "When he judgment shall proclaim,",
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   {
    "text": "And the earth shall melt away",
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   {
    "text": "Like wax before the flame?",
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    "text": "Pale-faced death will quickly come",
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    "text": "To drag you to his bar;",
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    "text": "Then to hear your awful doom",
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    "text": "Will fill you with despair:",
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    "text": "All your sins will round you crowd,",
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    "text": "Sins of a blood-crimson dye;",
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    "text": "Each for vengeance crying loud,",
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   {
    "text": "And what can you reply?",
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    "text": "Though your heart be made of steel,",
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   {
    "text": "Your forehead lined with brass,",
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   {
    "text": "God at length will make you feel",
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    "text": "He will not let you pass:",
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    "text": "Sinners then in vain will call,",
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   {
    "text": "(Though they now despise his grace)",
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    "text": "Rocks and mountains, on us fall,",
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    "text": "And hide us from his face!",
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    "text": "But as yet there is a hope",
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    "text": "You may his mercy know;",
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   {
    "text": "Though his arm is lifted up,",
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   {
    "text": "He still forbears the blow:",
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    "text": "’Twas for sinners Jesus died,",
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   {
    "text": "Sinners he invites to come;",
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   {
    "text": "None who come shall be denied⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "He says⁠—“There still is room.”",
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