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    "text": "Day of judgment, day of wonders!",
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    "text": "Hark! the trumpet’s awful sound,",
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    "text": "Louder than a thousand thunders,",
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    "text": "Shakes the vast creation round!",
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    "text": "How the summons will the sinner’s heart confound!",
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    "text": "See the Judge our nature wearing,",
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   {
    "text": "Clothed in majesty divine!",
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    "text": "You who long for his appearing",
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    "text": "Then shall say⁠—“This God is mine!”",
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   {
    "text": "Gracious Saviour, own me in that day for thine.",
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    "text": "At his call the dead awaken,",
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    "text": "Rise to life from earth and sea.",
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    "text": "All the powers of nature, shaken",
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    "text": "By his looks, prepare to flee.",
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    "text": "Careless sinner, what will then become of thee?",
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    "text": "Horrors past imagination",
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    "text": "Will surprise your trembling heart,",
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   {
    "text": "When you hear your condemnation,",
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   {
    "text": "“Hence, accursed wretch, depart!",
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    "text": "Thou with Satan and his angels have thy part!”",
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    "text": "Satan, who now tries to please you,",
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    "text": "Lest you timely warning take,",
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   {
    "text": "When that word is past, will seize you,",
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    "text": "Plunge you in the burning lake:",
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    "text": "Think, poor sinner, thy eternal all’s at stake.",
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    "text": "But to those who have confessed,",
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    "text": "Loved and served the Lord below,",
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    "text": "He will say⁠—“Come near, ye blessed,",
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   {
    "text": "See the kingdom I bestow:",
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    "text": "You for ever shall my love and glory know.”",
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    "text": "Under sorrows and reproaches,",
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    "text": "May this thought your courage raise,",
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    "text": "Swiftly God’s great day approaches,",
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   {
    "text": "Sighs shall then be changed to praise.",
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   {
    "text": "We shall triumph when the world is in a blaze.",
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