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 "container": "Book I On Select Texts of Scripture",
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  "venue": "Olney Hymns (1779)",
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    "text": "The message first to Smyrna sent,",
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    "text": "A message full of grace,",
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    "text": "To all the Saviour’s flock is meant",
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    "text": "Thus to his church, his chosen bride,",
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    "text": "Saith the great First and Last,",
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    "text": "Who ever lives, though once he died,",
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   {
    "text": "“Hold thy profession fast.",
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   {
    "text": "“Thy works and sorrow well I know,",
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   {
    "text": "Perform’d and borne for me;",
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    "text": "Poor though thou art, despised and low,",
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    "text": "Yet who is rich like thee?",
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    "text": "“I know thy foes, and what they say,",
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    "text": "How long they have blasphemed;",
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    "text": "The synagogue of Satan they,",
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    "text": "Though they would Jews be deem’d.",
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    "text": "“Though Satan for a season rage,",
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    "text": "And prisons be your lot,",
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   {
    "text": "I am your Friend, and I engage",
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    "text": "You shall not be forgot.",
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    "text": "“Be faithful unto death, nor fear",
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    "text": "A few short days of strife;",
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    "text": "Behold! the prize you soon shall wear,",
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    "text": "A crown of endless life!”",
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    "text": "Hear what the Holy Spirit saith,",
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    "text": "Of all who overcome;",
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   {
    "text": "“They shall escape the second death,",
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    "text": "The sinner’s awful doom!”",
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