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    "text": "Destruction’s dangerous road",
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    "text": "What multitudes pursue,",
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    "text": "While that which leads the soul to God",
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    "text": "Believers enter in",
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    "text": "By Christ, the living gate;",
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    "text": "But they who will not leave their sin,",
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    "text": "If self must be denied,",
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    "text": "They rather choose the way that’s wide,",
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    "text": "Encompass’d by a throng,",
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    "text": "On numbers they depend;",
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    "text": "So many surely can’t be wrong,",
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    "text": "And miss a happy end.",
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    "text": "But numbers are no mark",
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    "text": "That men will right be found;",
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    "text": "A few were saved in Noah’s ark,",
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    "text": "Obey the gospel call,",
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    "text": "And enter while you may,",
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    "text": "The flock of Christ is always small,",
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    "text": "And none are safe but they.",
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    "text": "Lord, open sinners eyes",
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    "text": "Their awful state to see;",
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    "text": "And make them, ere the storm arise,",
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    "text": "To thee for safety flee.",
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