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 "title": "A Living and a Dead Faith",
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    "text": "The Lord receives his highest praise",
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    "text": "From humble minds and hearts sincere;",
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    "text": "While all the loud professor says",
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    "text": "To walk as children of the day,",
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    "text": "To mark the precept’s holy light,",
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    "text": "To wage the warfare, watch, and pray,",
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    "text": "Not words alone it cost the Lord",
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    "text": "To purchase pardon for his own;",
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    "text": "Return the Saviour words alone.",
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    "text": "With golden bells the priestly vest,",
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    "text": "And rich pomegranates border’d round,",
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    "text": "The need of holiness express’d,",
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    "text": "Easy, indeed, it were to reach",
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    "text": "A mansion in the courts above,",
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    "text": "If swelling words and fluent speech",
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    "text": "Might serve instead of faith and love.",
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    "text": "But none shall gain the blissful place",
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    "text": "Or God’s unclouded glory see,",
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    "text": "Who talks of free and sov’reign grace,",
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    "text": "Unless that grace has made him free!",
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