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 "title": "Prayer for Patience",
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    "text": "Lord, who hast suffer’d all for me,",
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   {
    "text": "My peace and pardon to procure,",
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    "text": "The lighter cross I bear for thee",
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    "text": "Help me with patience to endure.",
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    "text": "The storm of loud repining hush,",
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    "text": "I would in humble silence mourn;",
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    "text": "Why should th unburnt though burning bush",
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    "text": "Be angry as the crackling thorn?",
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    "text": "Man should not faint at thy rebuke,",
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    "text": "Like Joshua falling on his face,",
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    "text": "When the cursed thing that Achan took",
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    "text": "Brought Isr’el into just disgrace.",
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    "text": "Perhaps some golden wedge suppress’d,",
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    "text": "Some secret sin, offends my God;",
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    "text": "Perhaps that Babylonish vest,",
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    "text": "Self-righteousness, provokes the rod.",
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    "text": "Ah! were I buffeted all day,",
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    "text": "Mock’d, crown’d with thorns, and spit upon,",
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    "text": "I yet should have no right to say,",
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    "text": "My great distress is mine alone.",
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    "text": "Let me not angrily declare",
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    "text": "No pain was ever sharp like mine;",
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    "text": "Nor murmur at the cross I bear,",
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    "text": "But rather weep, rememb’ring thine.",
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