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 "title": "True and False Zeal",
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    "text": "Zeal is that pure and heav’nly flame",
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    "text": "The fire of love supplies;",
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    "text": "While that which often bears the name",
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    "text": "Is self in a disguise.",
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    "text": "True zeal is merciful and mild,",
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    "text": "Can pity and forbear;",
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    "text": "The false is headstrong, fierce, and wild,",
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    "text": "And breathes revenge and war.",
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    "text": "While zeal for truth the Christian warms,",
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    "text": "He knows the worth of peace;",
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    "text": "But self contends for names and forms,",
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    "text": "Its party to increase.",
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    "text": "Zeal has attained its highest aim,",
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    "text": "Its end is satisfied,",
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   {
    "text": "If sinners love the Saviour’s name,",
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    "text": "Nor seeks it aught beside.",
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    "text": "But self, however well employ’d,",
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    "text": "Has its own ends in view;",
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    "text": "And says, as boasting Jehu cried,",
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    "text": "“Come, see what I can do.”",
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    "text": "Self may its poor reward obtain,",
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    "text": "And be applauded here;",
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    "text": "But zeal the best applause will gain,",
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    "text": "When Jesus shall appear.",
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   {
    "text": "Dear Lord! the idol self dethrone,",
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    "text": "And from our hearts remove;",
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    "text": "And let no zeal by us be shown",
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    "text": "But that which springs from love.",
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