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Principles of the Christian Religion Expressed in Plain and Easy Verse - Philip Doddridge · The Power of Concentration

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  Speaker 1: Preface to the Principles of the Christian Religion, expressed in
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  Speaker 1: plain and easy verse by Philip Doddridge. This is a
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: For more information, ought to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
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  Speaker 1: The little verses now before the reader were written at
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  Speaker 1: the desire of my most worthy and honored friend, the
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  Speaker 1: Reverend mister Clark of Saint Alban's, and are published at
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  Speaker 1: his request as what he hopes, may, by the divine blessing,
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  Speaker 1: do some good in the rising generation. I was the
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  Speaker 1: more willing to undertake the task because I had often
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  Speaker 1: observed with how much ease and pleasure children learn verses
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  Speaker 1: by heart, how fond they are of repeating them, and
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  Speaker 1: by consequence, how much longer they retain them than they
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  Speaker 1: do what they learn in prose. In this view, doctor
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  Speaker 1: Watson's songs for children have been a singular blessing to
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  Speaker 1: our land, and it is but justice to that great
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  Speaker 1: yet condescending writer to own that if this light essay
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  Speaker 1: be of any service in it, a great part of
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  Speaker 1: the thanks will be due to him who had digested
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  Speaker 1: the chief heads of Christianity in so natural a method,
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  Speaker 1: and expressed them in such easy yet comprehensive language in
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  Speaker 1: the first part of his second set of catechisms, that
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  Speaker 1: he had left me very little more to do under
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  Speaker 1: many of the articles than to translate them into rhyme.
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  Speaker 1: For I can hardly presume to call it poetry. That
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  Speaker 1: simplicity and ease which may suit children. I have been
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  Speaker 1: always careful to maintain, and have endeavored here and there
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  Speaker 1: where I conveniently could, to strike the fancy with little imagery,
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  Speaker 1: and especially to affect the hearts of my dear little
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  Speaker 1: scholars by giving a serious and practical turn to the
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  Speaker 1: several truths which are delivered. It has also been my
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  Speaker 1: great care to insert nothing into these verses, but what
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  Speaker 1: I apprehend the generality of serious Christians believe, so that
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  Speaker 1: I hope they will suit different denominations, as indeed I
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  Speaker 1: could wish the rising Age might be instructed in what
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  Speaker 1: is like to unite rather than divide us. Their own comfort,
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  Speaker 1: as well as the credit of our common Christianity, is
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  Speaker 1: much concerned in it. Some will, no doubt think this
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  Speaker 1: a trifling performance. But I have been told that the
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  Speaker 1: familiar system of religion, which Grotius drew up in easy verse,
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  Speaker 1: for the use of the Dutch Sailors was esteemed by
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  Speaker 1: him and others one of his most useful works. And
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  Speaker 1: if I had not the patronage of such illustrious names
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  Speaker 1: as have gone before me in such humble labors, I
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  Speaker 1: should think myself unworthy the honor of calling Jesus my master.
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  Speaker 1: If I thought it beneath me to be desirous of
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  Speaker 1: doing good to the least child of the poorest of
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  Speaker 1: the people. No nation under Heaven appears to me so
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  Speaker 1: well furnished with helps for the Christian education of children
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  Speaker 1: as our own. I heartily pray that parents may be
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  Speaker 1: diligent in using them, and that they may enforce their
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  Speaker 1: good instructions with a suitable example. And then I doubt not,
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  Speaker 1: but through the divine blessing the happy fruits will be visible.
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  Speaker 1: Nor will a gracious God, who taketh pleasure in the
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  Speaker 1: prosperity of his people forget the least pious and benevolent
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  Speaker 1: attempt for promoting so good a work. Northampton, October thirty one,
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  Speaker 1: seventeen forty three p. Doddridge, end of preface Lessen one
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  Speaker 1: by Philip Doddrich read for LibriVox dot org by in
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  Speaker 1: the desert of our own nature and its chief glory
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  Speaker 1: and happiness. Now for a while aside, I'll lay my
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  Speaker 1: childless trifles and my play, and call my thoughts which
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  Speaker 1: rove abroad, to view myself and view my God. I'll
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  Speaker 1: look within that I may see what I now am,
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  Speaker 1: what I must be. I am the creature of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: He made me by his powerful word. This body, in
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  Speaker 1: each curious part, was wrought by his unfailing art. From
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  Speaker 1: him my noblest spirit came my soul, spark of heavenly flame,
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  Speaker 1: that soul by which my body lives, which thinks and hopes,
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  Speaker 1: and joys and grieves, and must, in heaven or hell
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  Speaker 1: remain when flesh is turn'd to dust again. What business
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  Speaker 1: then should I attend? Or what esteem my noblest end?
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  Speaker 1: Sure it consists in this alone, that God, my maker,
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  Speaker 1: may be known, so known that I may love him
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  Speaker 1: still and form my actions by his will, that He
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  Speaker 1: may bless me whilst I live, and when I die,
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  Speaker 1: my soul receive to dwell for ever in His sight,
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  Speaker 1: in perfect knowledge and delight. End of poem. This recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain. Lessen too, by Philip Doddridge
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  Speaker 1: read for Librevocs dot org By In the Desert the
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of God and our duty to be learnt from
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  Speaker 1: the Bible. How shall a young immortal learn this great,
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  Speaker 1: this infinite concern, what my almighty Maker is, and what
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  Speaker 1: the way this God to please? Shall some bright angel
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  Speaker 1: spread his wing the welcome message down to bring, Or
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  Speaker 1: must we dig beneath the ground deep as where silver
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  Speaker 1: mines are found. I bless his name, for what I hear.
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  Speaker 1: The Word of life and truth is near. His gospel
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  Speaker 1: sounds through all our land. Bibles are lodged in every hand.
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  Speaker 1: That sacred book, inspired by God in our own tongue,
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  Speaker 1: is spread abroad. That book may little children read and
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  Speaker 1: learn the knowledge which they need. I'll place it still
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  Speaker 1: before my eyes, for there my hope and treasure lies.
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  Speaker 1: End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Lesson three by Philip Doddridge read for LibriVox dot org
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  Speaker 1: By In the Desert of the nature and attributes of
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  Speaker 1: the Blessed God. God is a spirit none can see.
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  Speaker 1: He ever was, is and shall be present where His
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  Speaker 1: creatures dwell through earth and see through heaven and Hell.
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  Speaker 1: His eye with infinite survey, views all their realms in
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  Speaker 1: full display. What has been, is, or shall be done,
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  Speaker 1: or here or there to him is known. Nor can
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  Speaker 1: one thought arise unseen in mind of angels or of men.
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  Speaker 1: Yet far above all anxious cares serene. He rules his
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  Speaker 1: grand affairs, while wisdom infinite attends by surest means the
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  Speaker 1: noblest ends majestic. From his lofty throne he speaks, and
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  Speaker 1: all his will is done. Nor can united worlds withstand
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  Speaker 1: the force of his almighty hand. Yet ever righteous are
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  Speaker 1: his ways, faithful and true. Whate'er he says. The Holy, Holy,
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  Speaker 1: Holy Lord, by all the angelic host, adored the bounty
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  Speaker 1: of his gracious hands, wide as the world he made extends,
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  Speaker 1: And though himself completely blessed with pity, looks on the distressed.
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  Speaker 1: And by his son, our Savior, dear to sinners, brings
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  Speaker 1: salvation near all that is glorious, good and great does
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  Speaker 1: in the Lord Jehovah meet. Then in his name be
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  Speaker 1: glory given by all on earth and all in Heaven.
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  Speaker 1: End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Lesson four by Philip Doddridge read for LibriVox dot Org
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  Speaker 1: by in the desert of God's relation to us. The Lord,
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  Speaker 1: my maker I adore, created by his love and power,
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  Speaker 1: he fashioned in their various forms, angels and men, and
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  Speaker 1: beasts and worms, and all their well rang'd orders stand
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  Speaker 1: supported by his powerful hand, Father of light. Amidst the skies,
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  Speaker 1: he bids the golden sun arise. He scatters the refreshing
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  Speaker 1: rain to cheer the grass and swell the grain, And
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  Speaker 1: every day presents the food that satisfieth my mouth, with
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  Speaker 1: good at home abroad by night and day. He is
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  Speaker 1: my guardian and my stay, and sure tis fit my
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  Speaker 1: soul should know he is my lord and sovereign too. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: may that voice that speaks his law my heart to
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  Speaker 1: sweet obedient straw, that when I see the judge descend
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  Speaker 1: I in that judge may see my friend. End of poem.
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  Speaker 1: This recording is in the public domain. Lesson five by
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  Speaker 1: Philip Doddridge, read for LibriVox dot org by In the desert,
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  Speaker 1: the sum of our duty to God and man. The
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  Speaker 1: knowledge which my heart desires is but to learn what
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  Speaker 1: God requires. Speak then the word my Father, dear, for
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  Speaker 1: all my souls awake to hear, and O what joy
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  Speaker 1: my breast must move to hear that all thy law
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  Speaker 1: is love. This is the sum of every part. To
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  Speaker 1: love the Lord with all my heart, with all my soul,
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  Speaker 1: with all my might, and in his service to delight.
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  Speaker 1: That I should love my neighbors too, and what I
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  Speaker 1: wish from them should do? How short and sweet, how
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  Speaker 1: good and plain, easy to learn and to retain. Or
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  Speaker 1: may thy grace my soul renew and twill be sweet
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  Speaker 1: to practice too. End of poem. This recordings in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain Lessens six by Philip Doddridge read Forlebrovox dot
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  Speaker 1: Org by in the Desert. How our love to God
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  Speaker 1: is to be express'd? Since love is as my duty known?
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  Speaker 1: How must this love to God be shown? Sure I
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  Speaker 1: the highest thoughts should raise of Him who is above all,
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  Speaker 1: praise his favor, most of all desire, and still to
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  Speaker 1: please him, should aspire to him, be constant worship paid,
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  Speaker 1: and all his sacred laws obeyed. If to afflict me
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  Speaker 1: be his will, I'll bear it with submission, Still a
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  Speaker 1: tender father. Sure he proves and but corrects, because he
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  Speaker 1: loves his word with diligence. All hear to him present
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  Speaker 1: my daily prayer, And while new mercies I implore for
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  Speaker 1: blessings past I will adore, and every action shall express
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  Speaker 1: a heart full charg'd with thankfulness. End of poem. This
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  Speaker 1: recordings in the public domain. Lesson seven by Philip Doddridge
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  Speaker 1: read for Librovox dot org by in the Desert, How
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  Speaker 1: love to our neighbour should be expressed? I, by my
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  Speaker 1: love to men, must prove how cordially my God I
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  Speaker 1: love to those whom he hath clothed with power. I
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  Speaker 1: would be subject every hour to parents and to rulers too,
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  Speaker 1: pay honor and obedience due In every word i'll truth maintain,
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  Speaker 1: in every act, Shall justice reign in all my feeble
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  Speaker 1: hands can do the good of all I would pursue.
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  Speaker 1: And where my powers of action fail, kind wishes in
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  Speaker 1: my heart prevail for every man, whoe'er he be stranger
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  Speaker 1: or friend or enemy, Since by God's pardoning grace I
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  Speaker 1: live well. May I all my foes forgive, and, as
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  Speaker 1: Christ's word and pattern show'd conquer their evil by my
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  Speaker 1: good end of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Lesson eight by Philip Doddridge read for Librovox dot org
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  Speaker 1: By in the Desert, sins to be avoided in thought
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  Speaker 1: word and action, guard me O God from every sin.
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  Speaker 1: Let heart and tongue and life be clean. Though with
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand snares beset, I never would my Lord forget
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  Speaker 1: Fain would I learn to lay aside malice and stubbornness,
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  Speaker 1: and pride, envy, and every evil thought. Nor be my
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  Speaker 1: breast with anger hot each other, passion, wild and rude.
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  Speaker 1: I long to feel by grace subdued. When thus my
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  Speaker 1: heart is well prepared, my tongung I easily shall guard
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  Speaker 1: from every oath and curse profane, nor take God's reverend
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  Speaker 1: name in vain. No sacred thing shall either ride nor scoff,
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  Speaker 1: nor rail, nor brawl, nor chide My soul. Will every
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  Speaker 1: lie detest, and every base in decent jest, This humble,
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  Speaker 1: watchful soul of mine shall with abhorrence then decline the
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  Speaker 1: drunkard's cup, the glutton's feast that sink the man down
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  Speaker 1: to the beast, the injurious blow, the wanton eye, the
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  Speaker 1: loss of ours that quickly fly, and that which leads
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  Speaker 1: to every crime, the vain mispense of sacred time. What
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  Speaker 1: brings dishonour on God's law, or what on man would
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  Speaker 1: mischief draw? End of poem. This recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. Lessen nine by Philip Doddridge read for LibriVox
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  Speaker 1: dot Org by in the Desert, the corruption of nature
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  Speaker 1: and sins of life Acknowledg'd Lord. When my wretched soul
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  Speaker 1: surveys the various follies of my ways, the guilt of
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  Speaker 1: every word and thought, every neglect, and every fault, Well,
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  Speaker 1: may I tremble to appear laden with horror, shame, and fear.
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  Speaker 1: Adam our common head Alas brought sin and death on
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  Speaker 1: all his race. From him, my ruin'd nature came heir
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  Speaker 1: to his sorrow and his shame. My body weakned, dark,
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  Speaker 1: my mind to good, averse to sin, inclin'd, and o
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  Speaker 1: too soon the deadly fruit ripen'd from that unhappy root.
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  Speaker 1: Duty requir'd my early care, every fond indulgence to forbear,
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  Speaker 1: requir'd me all the good I knew, with constant vigor
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  Speaker 1: to pursue. But my vain heart and stubborn will, in
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  Speaker 1: its own ways, would wander still like a while all
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  Speaker 1: thatas as cult would go on to this wilderness of woe.
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  Speaker 1: Vainly I seek to plead a word, silent in guilt
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  Speaker 1: before the Lord end of poem. This recordings in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. Lesson ten by Philip Dodrich read for LibriVox
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  Speaker 1: dot org by In the desert of the misery which
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  Speaker 1: sin hath brought upon us? Who can abide God's wrathos
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  Speaker 1: stand before the terrors of his hand Jehovah's curse? What
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  Speaker 1: heart shall dare to meet? Or what be strong to bear?
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  Speaker 1: He every good can take away, and every evil on
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  Speaker 1: us lay can buy one single word, bring down the
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  Speaker 1: tallest head that wears a crown. The statesman wise, the warrior,
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  Speaker 1: brave to molder in the silent grave, and send the
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  Speaker 1: wretched soul to Hell, to the fierce flames, where devils
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  Speaker 1: dwell for endless years, to languish there in pangs of
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  Speaker 1: infinite despair. I, then, poor feeble child, How soon must
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  Speaker 1: I dissolve before his frown? And yet his frowns and
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  Speaker 1: vengeance too? I, by my sins, have made my new
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  Speaker 1: Is there no hope? And must I die? Is there
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  Speaker 1: no friend, no helper? Nigh? Is it beyond repeal the
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  Speaker 1: creed that every soul that sins must bleed? Or let
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  Speaker 1: my longing trembling ear some sound of grace and pardon?
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  Speaker 1: Here my soul would the first news embrace and turn
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  Speaker 1: its tremblings into praise. End of poem. This recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Lessen eleven by Philip Doddridge read
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  Speaker 1: for LibriVox dot org by in the Desert of the
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  Speaker 1: Gospel or the Good News of Salvation by Christ? What
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  Speaker 1: joyful tidings do I hear? Tis gospel grace salutes my ear,
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  Speaker 1: And by thy gentle sound I find this righteous God
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  Speaker 1: is mild and kind. Jesus, his only son, displays the
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  Speaker 1: wonders of his father's grace. The great salvation, long foretold
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  Speaker 1: by prophets to the Jews of old, is now in
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  Speaker 1: plainer words made known as to the apostles, clearly shown
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  Speaker 1: by this blessed message brought from heaven. Pardon and peace
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  Speaker 1: and grace is given. Or may I know that Savior dear,
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  Speaker 1: whom God has represented there, and that eternal life receive
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  Speaker 1: which he was sent by God to give. Hind of poem.
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  Speaker 1: This recording is in the public domain. Lesson twelve by
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  Speaker 1: Who Christ is and how he on earth? Jesus, how
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  Speaker 1: bright his glories shine. The great Immanual is divine one
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  Speaker 1: with the Father. He appears, and all his father's honors shares.
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  Speaker 1: Yet he to bring salvation down, has put our mortal
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  Speaker 1: nature on he. In a humble virgin's womb, a feeble
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  Speaker 1: infant did become a stable was his lodging made, and
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  Speaker 1: the rude manger was his bed. Growing in life, he
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  Speaker 1: still was seen humble, laborious, poor, and mean. The son
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  Speaker 1: of God. From year to year did as a carpenter
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  Speaker 1: appear at length when he to preach was sent through
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  Speaker 1: towns and villages, He went and traveled with unwearied zeal
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  Speaker 1: God's will and nature to reveal, to prove the heavenly
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  Speaker 1: truths he taught. Unnumbered, miracles were wrought. The blind beheld him,
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  Speaker 1: and the ear which had been death his voice could hear.
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  Speaker 1: Sickness obeyed his healing hand, and devils fled at his command.
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  Speaker 1: The lame for joy around he him leap the dead
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  Speaker 1: he wakens from their sleep. Through all his life his
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  Speaker 1: doctrine shines drawn in the plainest, fairest lines, and death.
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  Speaker 1: At length did he sustain our pardon and our peace
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  Speaker 1: again that sinners who condemned it stood might gain salvation
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  Speaker 1: by his blood all honor. Then ascribe it be to
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  Speaker 1: him who lived and died for me. End of poem.
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  Speaker 1: This recording is in the public domain. Lesson thirteen by
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  Speaker 1: desert of Christ's death, resurrection and ascension, Jesus the Righteous
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  Speaker 1: low He dies for sin, a spotless sacrifice. Justice has
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  Speaker 1: on his sacred head the weight of our transgressions laid.
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  Speaker 1: If God's own son would sinners save, he must be
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  Speaker 1: humble to the grave, that so a pardoning God might
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  Speaker 1: show what vengeance to our crimes was due. Nail to
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  Speaker 1: the cross, with torturing, smart what anguish rack'd his tender heart.
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  Speaker 1: Alas how bitterly he cried, tasted the vinegar, and died
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  Speaker 1: cold in the tomb that mournful day, my Saviour's mangled
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  Speaker 1: body lay well. May I blush and weep to see
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  Speaker 1: what Jesus bore for love of me, But o my
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  Speaker 1: soul thy grief refrain. Jesus the Savior lives again. On
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  Speaker 1: the third day. The conqueror rose and greatly triumph'd o'er
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  Speaker 1: his foes, prov'd his recover'd life and then ascended to
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  Speaker 1: his heaven again exalted on a shining throne at God's
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  Speaker 1: right hand. He sets him down to plead the merits
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  Speaker 1: of his blood and rule for all his people's good
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  Speaker 1: wide o'er all worlds. His power extends, and well can
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  Speaker 1: he protect his friends? May I in that blessed band
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  Speaker 1: appear secure from danger and from fear? End of poem.
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  Speaker 1: desert of the nature of faith and repentance, they must
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  Speaker 1: repent and must believe. Who Christ's salvation would receive? Or
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  Speaker 1: may Thy spirit faith impart and work repentance in my heart?
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  Speaker 1: Bless Jesus, who can be so base as to suspect
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  Speaker 1: Thy power or grace, Or who can e'er so stupid
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  Speaker 1: be to slight thy blessings Lord and THEE, with humble,
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  Speaker 1: reverent hope and love, I to thy gracious feet would
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  Speaker 1: move and to thy care. My all resign resolved to
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  Speaker 1: be forever thine secure. If Thou vouchsafed to keep my
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  Speaker 1: feeble soul among thy sheep, the sins and follies I
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  Speaker 1: have done humbled in dust, I would bemoan, and while
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  Speaker 1: past guilt, I thus deplore, I would repeat that guilt
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  Speaker 1: no more. But by a life of zeal and love,
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  Speaker 1: true faith, and penitence approve. So shall thy grace my
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  Speaker 1: sins forgive, Jesus shall smile, and I shall live. End
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  Speaker 1: of poem. This recordings in the public domain Lesson fifteen
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  Speaker 1: the desert of the assistances and influences of the blessed Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: tis not in my weak power alone to melt this
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  Speaker 1: stubborn heart of stone my soul, to change my life,
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  Speaker 1: to mend or seek to Christ. That generous friend tis
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  Speaker 1: God's own spirit from above, fixes our faith, inflames our love,
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  Speaker 1: and makes a life divine. Begin in wretched souls long
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  Speaker 1: dead to sin. That most important gift of heaven to
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  Speaker 1: those that ask and seek is given. Then be it
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  Speaker 1: my immediate care, with importunity of prayer, to seek it
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  Speaker 1: in a Saviour's name, who will not turn my hopes
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  Speaker 1: to shame. God from on high his grace shall pour.
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  Speaker 1: My soul shall flourish more and more. Press on with
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  Speaker 1: speed from grace to grace till glory end and crown
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  Speaker 1: the race. Since then, the Father and the Son and
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, three in one glorious beyond all speech and thought,
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  Speaker 1: have jointly my salvation wrought. I'll join them in my
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  Speaker 1: songs of praise now and through Heaven's eternal days. End
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  Speaker 1: of poem. This recordings in the public domain. Lesson sixteen
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  Speaker 1: by Philip Doddridge read for librivoxt aby in the desert
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  Speaker 1: of the means of grace which God has appointed? What
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  Speaker 1: kind provision God has made that we may safe to heaven?
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  Speaker 1: Be led? For this the prophets preached and wrote. For this,
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  Speaker 1: the blessed Apostles taught, taught, as the Spirit did inspire,
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  Speaker 1: who fell from heaven in tongues of fire, and gave
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  Speaker 1: them languages unknown that distant lands his grace might own.
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  Speaker 1: His hand has kept the sacred page secure from men's
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  Speaker 1: and devil's rage. For this he churches did ordain his
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  Speaker 1: truths and worship to maintain. For this he pastors did
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  Speaker 1: provide in those assemblies to preside, and from the round
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  Speaker 1: of common days marked out our sabbaths to His praise.
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  Speaker 1: Delightful day when Christians meet to bear and pray, and
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  Speaker 1: seeing how sweet for this he gives in solemn ways,
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  Speaker 1: appointed tokens of his grace in sacramental pledges. There his
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  Speaker 1: soldiers to their general swear. Baptized into one common Lord,
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  Speaker 1: they joyful meet around his board, honor the orders of
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  Speaker 1: his house, and speak their love and seal their vows.
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  Speaker 1: End of poem. This recordings in the public domain Lesson
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  Speaker 1: seventeen by Philip Doddridge read for LibriVox dot org by
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  Speaker 1: in the desert of the design and obligation of baptism.
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  Speaker 1: In baptism washed, we all must be in honor of
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  Speaker 1: the sacred three to show how we are washed from
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  Speaker 1: sin in Jesus blood and born again by grace divine,
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  Speaker 1: and thus are made members of Christ, our common head.
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  Speaker 1: The Father formed the glorious scheme, and we adopted are
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  Speaker 1: by him. The Son, great Prophet, priest and King. Did
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  Speaker 1: news of this redemption bring. He by his death our
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  Speaker 1: life procured, and now bestows it as our Lord. The
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit witness bore to this blessed gospel. Heretofore and
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  Speaker 1: teaches those He's purified, faithful and patient to abide into
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  Speaker 1: these names. I was baptized and to be the honor
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  Speaker 1: justly prized, nor let the sacred bond be broke, nor
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  Speaker 1: be my covenant God forsook thus washed, I'd keep my
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  Speaker 1: garments clean and never more returned to sin. One body.
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  Speaker 1: Now all Christians are, or may they, in one's spirit
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  Speaker 1: share and cherish that endearing love in which the saints
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  Speaker 1: are blessed above end of poem. This recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. Lesson eighteen by Philip Doddridge, read for
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot Org by in the Desert on the nature
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  Speaker 1: and design of the Lord's Supper, The memory of Christ's
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  Speaker 1: death is sweet when saints around his table meet and
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  Speaker 1: break the bread and pour the wine, obedient to His
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  Speaker 1: word divine, while they the bread and cup receive. If
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  Speaker 1: on their Savior they believe, they feast as on His
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  Speaker 1: flesh and blood, cordial, divine and heavenly food. Thus their
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  Speaker 1: baptismal bond renew and blove to every Christian show well,
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  Speaker 1: may their souls rejoice and thrive, Or may the blessed
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  Speaker 1: hour arrive when ripe in knowledge and in grace, I
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  Speaker 1: at that board shall find a place. And now what
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  Speaker 1: there his people do? I would, at humble distance view
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  Speaker 1: would look to Christ with grateful heart, and in their
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  Speaker 1: pleasures take my part resolv'd. While such a sight I
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  Speaker 1: see to live to him who died for me. End
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  Speaker 1: of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Lesson
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  Speaker 1: nineteen by Philip Doddridge read for LibriVox dot Org by
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  Speaker 1: In the Desert on the nature and office of angels,
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  Speaker 1: my soul, the heavenly world survey the regions of eternal day.
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  Speaker 1: There Jesus reigns, and round his seat millions of glorious
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  Speaker 1: angels meet those morning stars. How bright they shine, how
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  Speaker 1: sweetly all their voices join to praise their maker, watchful
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  Speaker 1: still to mark the signals of his will. While with
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  Speaker 1: their outstretched wings they stand to fly at his divine command.
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  Speaker 1: All happy as they are, and great yet scorn they
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  Speaker 1: not on men to wait, and little children in their
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  Speaker 1: arms they gently bear, secure from harms. Or may I,
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  Speaker 1: with such humble zeal my heavenly Father's word fulfill that I,
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  Speaker 1: when time has run its race, may withhi blessed angels
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  Speaker 1: find a place borne on their friendly wings, on high
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  Speaker 1: to joys like theirs which never die. End of poem.
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  Speaker 1: As recording is in the public domain. Lesson twenty by
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  Speaker 1: Philip Doddridge read for librivocx dot org By in the
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  Speaker 1: Desert of the Fall and State of the Devils. Well
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  Speaker 1: may I tremble when I read that sin did heaven
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  Speaker 1: itself invaded cursed pride with subtility, unknown perverted angels near
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  Speaker 1: God's throne, they sinned against His holy name, and hateful
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  Speaker 1: devils they became. But wrath divine pursued them soon, and
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  Speaker 1: flaming vengeance hurled them down. Now in the pangs of
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  Speaker 1: fierce despair, prisoners at large, they range in air, walk
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  Speaker 1: through the earth, unheard unseen, and lay their snares for
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  Speaker 1: thoughtless men, tempt us to sin against our God and
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  Speaker 1: draw us to Hell's downward road. But God can all
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  Speaker 1: their power restrain. My Savior holds them in his chain
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  Speaker 1: till at his bar they all appear and meet their
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  Speaker 1: final sentence there end of poem. This recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. Lessen twenty one by Philip Doddridge read
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  Speaker 1: for librovocx dodwalk By in the Desert on death, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I confess thy sentence, just that sinful man should turn
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  Speaker 1: to dust, that I ere long should yield my breath
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  Speaker 1: the captive of all conquering death. Soon will the awful
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  Speaker 1: hour appear when I must quit my dwelling here, These
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  Speaker 1: active limbs to worms, a prey in the cold grave,
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  Speaker 1: must waste away. Nor shall I share in all that's
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  Speaker 1: done in this wide world, beneath the sun, to distant
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  Speaker 1: climes and seats unknown. My naked spirit must be gone
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  Speaker 1: to God. Its maker must return, and ever joy or
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  Speaker 1: ever morn. No room for penitence and prayer. No further
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  Speaker 1: preparation there can e'er be made. The thought is vain.
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  Speaker 1: My state unaltered. Must remain awake my soul without delay.
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  Speaker 1: That if God God summons thee this day, thou cheerful
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  Speaker 1: at his call, mayst rise and spring to life beyond
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  Speaker 1: the skies. End of poem. This recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. Less than twenty two by Philip Doddridge, read
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  Speaker 1: for LibriVox dot org by in the Desert on the
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  Speaker 1: Resurrection of the Dead. What awful ruins death hath made?
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  Speaker 1: How low the wise and great are laid alike? The
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  Speaker 1: saints and sinners die moldering alike, in dust they lie.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a day shall change the scene. How awful
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  Speaker 1: to the sons of men. When the archangel's trump shall
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  Speaker 1: sound and shake the air and cleave the ground. Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: enthroned in light, appears, circled with angels bright as stars. Rise,
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  Speaker 1: ye that sleep, the Lord shall say, And all the
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  Speaker 1: earth and all the sea yield up the nations of
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  Speaker 1: the dead for ages in their bowels hid boone knows
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  Speaker 1: its kindred bone again, all clothed anew, with flesh and skin.
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  Speaker 1: Each spirit knows its proper mate. They rise an army
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  Speaker 1: vast and great. But oh what different marks they bear
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  Speaker 1: of transport, some and some of fear. When marshaled in
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  Speaker 1: the judge's sight, these to the left, those to the right,
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  Speaker 1: that they may that last sentence hear, which shall their
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  Speaker 1: endless state declare my soul in deep attention, stay and
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  Speaker 1: learn the event of such a day. End of poem.
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  Speaker 1: This recording is in the public domain less than twenty
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  Speaker 1: three by Philip Doddrich read for LibriVox dot Org by
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  Speaker 1: In the Desert of Judgment and Eternity, heaven and Hell,
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  Speaker 1: when Christ to judge the world descends, Thus shall he
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  Speaker 1: say to all his friends, come, blessed souls, that kingdom
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  Speaker 1: share my father did for you. Prepare ere earth was founded,
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  Speaker 1: Come and rain, where endless life and joy remain. Then
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  Speaker 1: to the wicked cursed crew depart. Heaven is no place
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  Speaker 1: for you. To those eternal burnings go whose pangs the
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  Speaker 1: rebel angels know he speaks, and straight his shining bands,
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  Speaker 1: with fiery thunders in their hands, drives them away. Hell's
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  Speaker 1: Lake receives the wretches on its flaming waves. Justice divine,
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  Speaker 1: the gates shall bar and for a seal affixed despair,
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  Speaker 1: while Jesus, rising from his throne, leads his triumphant Armion
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  Speaker 1: to enter their divine abode in the fair city of
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  Speaker 1: their God. Their everlasting pleasures grow full, rivers of salvation flow,
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  Speaker 1: and all their happiness appears, increasing with eternal years. End
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  Speaker 1: of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Lesson
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  Speaker 1: twenty four by Philip Doddridge read for Librovox dot Org
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  Speaker 1: by in the Desert, the conclusion in a practical reflection
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  Speaker 1: on the whole and now my heart, with reverent awe
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  Speaker 1: from hence thine own instruction draw I at this judgment
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  Speaker 1: must appear. I must this solemn sentence here as I
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  Speaker 1: am with saints or sinner's placed depart accursed, or come
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  Speaker 1: ye blest for me the fruits of glory grow, or
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  Speaker 1: hell awaits my fall below eternal God. What shall I do?
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  Speaker 1: My nature trembles at the view my deathless soul her
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  Speaker 1: self surveys with joy and terror and amaze. Oll be
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  Speaker 1: thy shield around me, spread to guard the spirit thou
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  Speaker 1: hast made. Save me from snares of earth and hell,
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  Speaker 1: and from myself. Preserve me well, lest all the heavenly
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  Speaker 1: truths I know should aggravate my guilt and woe. Thy
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  Speaker 1: power in weakness is displayed. If babes by thee be
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  Speaker 1: conquerors made, if Satan's malice shall confound, and Heaven with
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  Speaker 1: praises shall resound. End of poem. This recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. End of the Principles of the Christian
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  Speaker 1: Religion express'd in plain and easy verse by Philip doddridche