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 "title": "The Inward Warfare",
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 "poet": "John Newton",
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 "container": "Book I On Select Texts of Scripture",
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  "year": 1779,
  "venue": "Olney Hymns (1779)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "Strange and mysterious is my life,",
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   {
    "text": "What opposites I feel within!",
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    "text": "A stable peace, a constant strife;",
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    "text": "The rule of grace, the power of sin:",
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    "text": "Too often I am captive led,",
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    "text": "Yet daily triumph in my Head.",
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    "text": "I prize the privilege of prayer,",
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    "text": "But oh! what backwardness to pray!",
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    "text": "Though on the Lord I cast my care,",
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   {
    "text": "I feel its burden every day;",
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   {
    "text": "I seek his will in all I do,",
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   {
    "text": "Yet find my own is working too.",
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    "text": "I call the promises my own,",
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    "text": "And prize them more than mines of gold;",
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    "text": "Yet though their sweetness I have known,",
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    "text": "They leave me unimpress’d and cold:",
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    "text": "One hour upon the truth I feed,",
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    "text": "The next I know not what to read.",
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    "text": "I love the holy day of rest,",
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   {
    "text": "When Jesus meets his gather’d saints;",
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    "text": "Sweet day, of all the week the best!",
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   {
    "text": "For its return my spirit pants:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet often through my unbelief,",
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    "text": "It proves a day of guilt and grief.",
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    "text": "While on the Saviour I rely,",
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   {
    "text": "I know my foes shall lose their aim;",
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   {
    "text": "And therefore dare their power defy,",
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   {
    "text": "Assured of conquest through his name:",
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    "text": "But soon my confidence is slain,",
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    "text": "And all my fears return again.",
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    "text": "Thus diff’rent powers within me strive,",
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   {
    "text": "And grace and sin by turns prevail;",
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   {
    "text": "I grieve, rejoice, decline, revive,",
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   {
    "text": "And vict’ry hangs in doubtful scale:",
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   {
    "text": "But Jesus has his promise past,",
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   {
    "text": "That grace shall overcome at last.",
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