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 "title": "Confession and Prayer. Dec. 13, 1776",
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    "text": "Oh may the pow’r which melts the rock",
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    "text": "Be felt by all assembled here!",
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    "text": "Or else our service will but mock",
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    "text": "The God whom we profess to fear.",
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    "text": "Lord, while thy judgments shake the land,",
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    "text": "Thy people’s eyes are fix’d on thee!",
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   {
    "text": "We own thy just uplifted hand,",
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    "text": "Which thousands cannot, will not see.",
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    "text": "How long hast thou bestow’d thy care",
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    "text": "On this indulged ungrateful spot,",
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    "text": "While other nations far and near",
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    "text": "Here peace and liberty have dwelt,",
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    "text": "The glorious gospel brightly shone;",
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    "text": "And oft our enemies have felt",
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    "text": "That God has made our cause his own.",
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    "text": "But ah! both heaven and earth have heard",
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    "text": "Our vile requital of his love!",
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    "text": "We, whom like children he has rear’d,",
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    "text": "Rebels against his goodness prove.",
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    "text": "His grace despised, his power defied,",
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    "text": "And legions of the blackest crimes,",
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    "text": "Profaneness, riot, lust, and pride,",
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    "text": "Are signs that mark the present times.",
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    "text": "The Lord displeased has raised his rod:",
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    "text": "Ah, where are now the faithful few",
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    "text": "Who tremble for the ark of God,",
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   {
    "text": "And know what Isr’el ought to do?",
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    "text": "Lord, hear thy people everywhere,",
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    "text": "Who meet to mourn, confess, and pray;",
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    "text": "The nation and thy churches spare,",
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    "text": "And let thy wrath be turn’d away!",
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