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 "title": "Afflictions Sanctified by the Word",
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  "venue": "Olney Hymns (1779)",
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    "text": "O how I love thy holy word,",
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    "text": "Thy gracious covenant, Lord!",
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   {
    "text": "It guides me in the peaceful way,",
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    "text": "I think upon it all the day.",
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    "text": "What are the mines of shining wealth,",
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    "text": "The strength of youth, the bloom of health;",
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    "text": "What are all joys compared with those",
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    "text": "Thine everlasting word bestows?",
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   {
    "text": "Long unafflicted, undismay’d,",
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   {
    "text": "In pleasure’s path secure I stray’d;",
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   {
    "text": "Thou madest me feel thy chast’ning rod,",
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   {
    "text": "And straight I turn’d unto my God.",
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    "text": "What though it pierced my fainting heart,",
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   {
    "text": "I bless’d thine hand that caused the smart!",
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    "text": "It taught my tears awhile to flow,",
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    "text": "But saved me from eternal woe.",
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    "text": "Oh! hadst thou left me unchastised,",
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    "text": "Thy precept I had still despised;",
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    "text": "And still the snare in secret laid",
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    "text": "Had my unwary feet betray’d.",
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    "text": "I love thee, therefore, my God,",
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    "text": "And breathe towards thy dear abode.",
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   {
    "text": "Where in thy presence fully bless’d,",
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    "text": "Thy chosen saints for ever rest.",
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