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 "title": "The Lord’s Day",
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    "text": "How welcome to the saints, when press’d",
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   {
    "text": "With six days’ noise and care and toil,",
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    "text": "Is the returning day of rest,",
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    "text": "Which hides them from the world awhile!",
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    "text": "Now from the throng withdrawn away,",
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    "text": "They seem to breathe a diff’rent air;",
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    "text": "Composed and soften’d by the day,",
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    "text": "All things another aspect wear.",
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    "text": "How happy if their lot is cast",
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    "text": "Where statedly the gospel sounds!",
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    "text": "The word is honey to their taste,",
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    "text": "Renews their strength, and heals their wounds!",
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    "text": "Though pinch’d with poverty at home,",
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    "text": "With sharp afflictions daily fed,",
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    "text": "It makes amends, if they can come",
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    "text": "To God’s own house for heav’nly bread!",
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    "text": "With joy they hasten to the place",
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    "text": "Where they their Saviour oft have met;",
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    "text": "And while they feast upon his grace,",
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    "text": "Their burdens and their griefs forget.",
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   {
    "text": "This favour’d lot, my friends, is ours;",
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    "text": "May we the privilege improve,",
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    "text": "And find these consecrated hours",
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    "text": "Sweet earnest of the joys above.",
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    "text": "We thank thee for thy day, O Lord!",
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    "text": "Here we thy promised presence seek;",
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   {
    "text": "Open thine hand, with blessings stored,",
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    "text": "And give us manna for the week.",
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