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17 - Book of Mormon - Joseph Smith Jr · Philosophy and Faith

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Speaker 1: The words of Mormon Chapter one. And now I Mormon,
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Speaker 1: being about to deliver up the record which I have
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Speaker 1: been making into the hands of my son Moronai. Behold,
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Speaker 1: I have witnessed almost all the destruction of my people,
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Speaker 1: the Nephites. And it is many hundred years after the
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Speaker 1: coming of Christ, that I deliver these records into the
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Speaker 1: hands of my son. And it supposeth me that he
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Speaker 1: will witness the entire destruction of my people. But may
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Speaker 1: God grant that he may survive them, that he may
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Speaker 1: write somewhat concerning them, and somewhat concerning Christ, that perhaps
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Speaker 1: some day it may profit them. And now I speak
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Speaker 1: somewhat concerning that which I have written. For after I
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Speaker 1: had made an abridgment from the plates of Nephi down
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Speaker 1: to the reign of this King Benjamin, of whom a
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Speaker 1: Malachi spake, I searched among the records which had been
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Speaker 1: delivered into my hands, and I found these plates which
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Speaker 1: contained this small acount of the prophets from Jacob down
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Speaker 1: to the reign of this King Benjamin, and also many
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Speaker 1: of the words of Nephi, and the things which are
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Speaker 1: upon these plates, pleasing me because of the prophecies of
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Speaker 1: the coming of Christ and my fathers, knowing that many
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Speaker 1: of them have been fulfilled. Yea. And I also now
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Speaker 1: that as many things as have been prophesied concerning us
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Speaker 1: down to this day have been fulfilled, and as many
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Speaker 1: as go beyond this day must surely come to pass.
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Speaker 1: Wherefore I chose these things to finish my record. Upon
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Speaker 1: them which remainder of my record, I shall take from
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Speaker 1: the plates of Nephi. And I cannot write the hundredth
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Speaker 1: part of the things of my people. But behold, I
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Speaker 1: shall take these plates which contain these prophesyings and revelations,
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Speaker 1: and put them with the remainder of my record. For
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Speaker 1: they are choice unto me, and I know they will
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Speaker 1: be choice unto my brethren. And I do this for
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Speaker 1: a wise purpose. For thus it whispereth me according to
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Speaker 1: the workings of the Spirit of the Lord which is
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Speaker 1: in me. And now I do not know all things,
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Speaker 1: but the Lord knoweth all things which are to come.
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Speaker 1: Wherefore he worketh in me to do according to his will.
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Speaker 1: And my prayer to God is concerning my brethren, that
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Speaker 1: they may once again come to the knowledge of God. Yea,
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Speaker 1: the redemption of Christ, that they may once again be
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Speaker 1: a delightsome people. And now I, Mormon, proceed to finish
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Speaker 1: out my record, which I take from the plates of Nephi,
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Speaker 1: and I make it according to the knowledge and the
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Speaker 1: understanding which God has given me. Wherefore it came to
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Speaker 1: pass that after a Malachi had delivered up these plates
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Speaker 1: into the hands of King Benjamin, he took them and
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Speaker 1: put them with the other plates which contained records which
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Speaker 1: had been handed down by the kings from generation to
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Speaker 1: generation until the days of King Benjamin. And they were
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Speaker 1: handed down King Benjamin from generation to generation until they
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Speaker 1: have fallen into my hands. And I, Mormon, pray to
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Speaker 1: God that they may be preserved from this time henceforth.
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Speaker 1: And I know that they will be preserved, for there
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Speaker 1: are great things written upon them, out of which my
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Speaker 1: people and their brethren shall be judged at the great
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Speaker 1: and last day, according to the Word of God which
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Speaker 1: is written. And now concerning this King Benjamin, he had
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Speaker 1: somewhat of contentions among his own people. And it came
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Speaker 1: to pass also that the armies of the Lamanites came
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Speaker 1: down out of the land of Nephi to battle against
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Speaker 1: his people. But behold, King Benjamin gathered together his armies,
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Speaker 1: and he did stand against them, and he did fight
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Speaker 1: with the strength of his own arm with the sword
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Speaker 1: of Laban, and in the strength of the Lord. They
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Speaker 1: did contend against their enemies until they had slain many
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Speaker 1: thousands of the laymen. And it came to pass that
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Speaker 1: they did contend against the Lamanites until they had driven
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Speaker 1: them out of all the lands of their inheritance. And
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Speaker 1: it came to pass that after there had been false christs,
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Speaker 1: and their mouths had been shut, and they punished according
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Speaker 1: to their crimes. And after there had been false prophets
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Speaker 1: and false preachers and teachers among the people, and all
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Speaker 1: these having been punished according to their crimes, and after
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Speaker 1: there having been much contention and many dissensions away unto
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Speaker 1: the Lamanites. Behold, it came to pass that King Benjamin,
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Speaker 1: with the assistance of the holy prophets who were among
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Speaker 1: his people. For behold, King Benjamin was a holy man,
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Speaker 1: and he did brain over his people in righteousness. And
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Speaker 1: there were many holy men in the land, and they
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Speaker 1: did speak the word of God with power and with authority,
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Speaker 1: and they did use much sharpness because of the stiff
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Speaker 1: neckness of the people. Wherefore, with the help of these,
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Speaker 1: King Benjamin, by laboring with all the might of his
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Speaker 1: body and the faculty of his whole soul, and also
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Speaker 1: the prophets, did once more establish peace in the land
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Speaker 1: the Book of Mosiah chapter one. And now there was
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Speaker 1: no more contention in all the land of Zarahemla among
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Speaker 1: all the people who belonged to King Benjamin, so that
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Speaker 1: King Benjamin had continual peace all the remainder of his days.
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Speaker 1: And he came to pass that he had three sons,
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Speaker 1: and he called their names Mosiah, Antilorum, and Heliman. And
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Speaker 1: he caused that they should be taught in all the
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Speaker 1: language of his fathers, that thereby they might become men
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Speaker 1: of understanding, and that they might know concerning the prophecies
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Speaker 1: which had been spoken by the mouths of their fathers,
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Speaker 1: which were delivered them by the hand of the Lord.
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Speaker 1: And he also taught them concerning the records which were
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Speaker 1: engraven on the plates of brass. Sang, my sons, I
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Speaker 1: would that ye should remember that were it not for
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Speaker 1: these plates which contain these records and these commandments, we
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Speaker 1: must have suffered in ignorance even at this present time,
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Speaker 1: not knowing the mysteries of God. For it were not
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Speaker 1: possible that our father Lehi could have remembered all these
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Speaker 1: things to have taught them to his children, except it
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Speaker 1: were for the help of these plates, For he having
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Speaker 1: been taught in the language of the Egyptians, therefore he
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Speaker 1: could read these engravings and teach them to his children,
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Speaker 1: that thereby they could teach them to their children, and
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Speaker 1: so fulfilling the commandments of God even down to this
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Speaker 1: present time. I say unto you, my sons, were it
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Speaker 1: not for these things, which have been kept and preserved
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Speaker 1: by the hand of God, that we might read and
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Speaker 1: understand of His mysteries and have His commandments always before
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Speaker 1: our eyes, that even our fathers would have dwindled in unbelief,
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Speaker 1: and we should have been like unto our brethren, the Lamanites,
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Speaker 1: who know nothing concerning these things, or even do not
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Speaker 1: believe them when they are taught them, because of the
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Speaker 1: traditions of their fathers, which are not correct. Oh, my sons,
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Speaker 1: I would that ye should remember that these sangs are true,
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Speaker 1: and also that these records are true. And behold also
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Speaker 1: the plates of Nephi, which contain the records and the
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Speaker 1: sangs of our fathers from the time they left Jerusalem
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Speaker 1: until now, and they are true, and we can know
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Speaker 1: of their surety because we have them before our eyes.
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Speaker 1: And now, my sons, I would that ye should remember
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Speaker 1: to search them diligently, that ye may profit thereby. And
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Speaker 1: I would that ye should keep the commandments of God,
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Speaker 1: that ye may prosper in the land according to the
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Speaker 1: promises which the Lord made unto our fathers. And many
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Speaker 1: more things did King Benjamin teach his sons which were
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Speaker 1: not written in this book. And it came to pass
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Speaker 1: that after King Benjamin had made an end of teaching
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Speaker 1: his sons, that he waxed old, and he saw that
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Speaker 1: he must very soon go the way of all the earth.
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Speaker 1: Therefore he thought it expedient that he should confer the
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Speaker 1: kingdom upon one of his sons. Therefore he had Mossiah
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Speaker 1: brought before him, and these are the words which he
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Speaker 1: spake unto him. Sang, my son, I would that ye
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Speaker 1: should make a proclamation throughout all this land, among all
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Speaker 1: this people, or the people of Zarahemla, and the people
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Speaker 1: of Mossiah who dwell in the land, that thereby they
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Speaker 1: may be gathered together. For on the morrow I shall
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Speaker 1: proclaim unto this my people, out of mine own mouth,
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Speaker 1: that thou art a king and a ruler over this
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Speaker 1: people whom the Lord, our God hath given us. And moreover,
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Speaker 1: I shall give this people a name, that thereby they
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Speaker 1: may be distinguished above all the people which the Lord
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Speaker 1: God hath brought out out of the land of Jerusalem.
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Speaker 1: And this I do because they have been a diligent
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Speaker 1: people in keeping the commandments of the Lord. And I
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Speaker 1: give unto them a name that never shall be blotted out,
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Speaker 1: except it be through transgression. Yea. And moreover, I say
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Speaker 1: unto you that if this highly favored people of the
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Speaker 1: Lord should fall unto transgression and become a wicked and
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Speaker 1: an adulterous people, that the Lord will deliver them up,
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Speaker 1: that thereby they become weak like unto their brethren, and
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Speaker 1: He will no more preserve them by his matchless and
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Speaker 1: marvelous power, as he has hitherto preserved our fathers. For
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Speaker 1: I say unto you that if he had not extended
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Speaker 1: his arm in the preservation of our fathers, they must
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Speaker 1: have fallen into the hands of the Lamanites and become
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Speaker 1: victims to their hatred. And it came to pass that
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Speaker 1: after King Benjamin had made an end of these sangs
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Speaker 1: to his son, that he gave him charge concerning all
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Speaker 1: the affairs of the kingdom. And moreover, he also gave
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Speaker 1: him charge concerning the records which were engraven on the
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Speaker 1: plates of brass, and also the plates of Nephi, and
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Speaker 1: also the sword of Laban and the ball or director,
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Speaker 1: which led our fathers through the wilderness, which was prepared
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Speaker 1: by the hand of the Lord, that thereby they might
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Speaker 1: be led, every one according to the heed and diligence
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Speaker 1: which they gave unto him. Therefore, as they were unfaithful,
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Speaker 1: they did not prosper nor progress in their journey, but
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Speaker 1: were driven back and incurred the displeasure of God upon them.
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Speaker 1: And therefore they were smitten with famine and sore afflictions
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Speaker 1: to stir them up in remembrance of their duty. And
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Speaker 1: now it came to pass that Mosiah went and did
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Speaker 1: as his father had commanded him, and proclaimed unto all
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Speaker 1: the people who were in the land of Sarahamla, that
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Speaker 1: thereby they might gather themselves together to go up to
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Speaker 1: the temple to hear the words which his father should
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Speaker 1: speak unto them. Chapter two. And it came to pass that,
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Speaker 1: after Messiah had done as his father had commanded him,
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Speaker 1: and had made a proclamation throughout all the land, that
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Speaker 1: the people gathered themselves together throughout all the land, that
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Speaker 1: they might go up to the temple to hear the
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Speaker 1: words which King Benjamin should speak unto them. And there
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Speaker 1: were a great number, even so many that they did
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Speaker 1: not number them, for they had multiplied exceedingly and waxed
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Speaker 1: great in the land. And they also took of the
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Speaker 1: firstlings of their flocks, that they might offer sacrifice and
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Speaker 1: burnt offerings according to the law of Moses, and also
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Speaker 1: that they might give thanks to the Lord their God,
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Speaker 1: who had brought them out of the land of Jerusalem,
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Speaker 1: and who had delivered them out of the hands of
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Speaker 1: their enemies, and had appointed just men to be their teachers,
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Speaker 1: and also a just man to be their king, who
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Speaker 1: had established peace in the land of Sarahemla, and who
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Speaker 1: had taught them to keep the commandments of God, that
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Speaker 1: they might rejoice and be filled with love towards God
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Speaker 1: and all men. And it came to pass that when
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Speaker 1: they came up to the temple, they pitched their tents
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Speaker 1: round about every man according to his family, consisting of
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Speaker 1: his wife, and his sons, and his daughters, and their
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Speaker 1: sons and their daughters, from the eldest down to the youngest,
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Speaker 1: every family being separate one from another. And they pitched
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Speaker 1: their tents round about the temple, every man having his
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Speaker 1: tent with the door thereof towards the temple, that thereby
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Speaker 1: they might remain in their tents and hear the words
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Speaker 1: which King Benjamin should speak unto them. For the multitude
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Speaker 1: being so great that King Benjamin could not teach them
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Speaker 1: all within the walls of the temple. Therefore he caused
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Speaker 1: a tower to be erected, that thereby his people might
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Speaker 1: hear the words which he should speak unto them. And
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Speaker 1: it came to pass that he began to speak to
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Speaker 1: his people from the tower, and they could not hear
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Speaker 1: his words because of the greatness of the multitude. Therefore
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Speaker 1: he caused that the words which he spake should be
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Speaker 1: written and sent forth among those that were not under
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Speaker 1: the sound of his voice, that they might also receive
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Speaker 1: his words. And these are the words which ye spake
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Speaker 1: and cause to be written, sang my brethren, all ye
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Speaker 1: that have assembled yourselves together, you that can hear my
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Speaker 1: words which I shall speak unto you this day. For
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Speaker 1: I have not commanded you to come up hither to
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Speaker 1: trifle with the words which I shall speak, but that
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Speaker 1: you should hearken unto me, and open your ears that
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Speaker 1: ye may hear, and your hearts that ye may understand,
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Speaker 1: and your minds that the mysteries of God may be
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Speaker 1: unfolded to your view. I have not commanded you to
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Speaker 1: come up hither that ye should fear me, or that
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Speaker 1: ye should think that I, of myself am more than
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Speaker 1: a mortal man. But I am like as yourselves, subject
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Speaker 1: to all manner of infirmities in body and mind. Yet
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Speaker 1: I have been chosen by this people and consecrated by
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Speaker 1: my father, and was suffered by the hand of the Lord,
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Speaker 1: that I should be a ruler and a king over
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Speaker 1: this people, and have been kept and preserved by his
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Speaker 1: matchless power to serve you with all the might, mind,
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Speaker 1: and strength which the Lord hath granted unto me. I
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Speaker 1: say unto you that as I have been suffered to
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Speaker 1: spend my days in your service even up to this time,
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Speaker 1: and have not sought gold, nor silver, nor any manner
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Speaker 1: of riches of you, neither have I suffered that ye
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Speaker 1: should be confined in dungeons, nor that ye should make
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Speaker 1: slaves one of another, nor that ye should murder or plunder,
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Speaker 1: or steal, or commit adultery. Nor even have I suffered
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Speaker 1: that ye should commit any manner of wickedness. And have
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Speaker 1: taught you that ye should keep the commandments of the
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Speaker 1: Lord in all things which he hath commanded you. And
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Speaker 1: even I myself have labored with mine own hands that
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Speaker 1: I might serve you, and that ye should not be
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Speaker 1: laden with taxes, and that there should nothing come upon
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Speaker 1: you which was grievous to be borne. And of all
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Speaker 1: these things which I have spoken, ye yourselves are witnesses
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Speaker 1: this day. Yet, my brethren, I have not done these
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Speaker 1: things that I might boast. Neither do I tell these
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Speaker 1: things that thereby I might accuse you. But I tell
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Speaker 1: you these things that ye may know that I can
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Speaker 1: answer a clear conscience before God. This day. Behold, I
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Speaker 1: say unto you that because I said unto you that
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Speaker 1: I had spent my days in your service, I do
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Speaker 1: not desire to boast, for I have only been in
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Speaker 1: the service of God. And behold, I tell you these
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Speaker 1: things that ye may learn wisdom, that ye may learn
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Speaker 1: that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings,
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Speaker 1: ye are only in the service of your God. Behold,
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Speaker 1: ye have called me your king. And if I, whom
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Speaker 1: ye call your king, do labor to serve you, then
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Speaker 1: ought not ye to labor to serve one another. And
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Speaker 1: behold also, if I, whom ye call your king, who
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Speaker 1: has spent his days in your service, and yet has
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Speaker 1: been in the service of God, do merit any thanks
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Speaker 1: from you, Oh, how you ought to thank your heavenly King.
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Speaker 1: I say unto you, my brethren, that if ye should
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Speaker 1: render all the thanks in praise which your whole soul
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Speaker 1: has power to possess, to that God who has created you,
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Speaker 1: and has kept and preserved you, and has caused that
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Speaker 1: ye should rejoice, and has granted that ye should live
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Speaker 1: in peace one with another, I say unto you that
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Speaker 1: if ye should serve Him who has created you from
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Speaker 1: the beginning and is preserving you from day to day
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Speaker 1: by lending you breath, that ye may live and move
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Speaker 1: and do according to your own will, and even supporting
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Speaker 1: you from one moment to another, I say, if ye
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Speaker 1: should serve him with all your whole souls, yet ye
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Speaker 1: ye would be unprofitable servants. And behold, all that he
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Speaker 1: requires of you is to keep his commandments. And he
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Speaker 1: has promised you that if ye would keep his commandments,
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Speaker 1: ye should prosper in the land. And he never doth
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Speaker 1: vary from that which he hath said. Therefore, if ye
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Speaker 1: do keep his commandments, he doth bless you and prosper you.
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Speaker 1: And now, in the first place, he hath created you
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Speaker 1: and granted unto you your lives, for which ye are
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Speaker 1: indebted unto him. And secondly he doth require that ye
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Speaker 1: should do as he hath commanded you, for which if
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Speaker 1: ye do, he doth immediately bless you. And therefore he
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Speaker 1: hath paid you, and ye are still indebted unto him,
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Speaker 1: and are and will be forever and ever. Therefore of
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Speaker 1: what have ye to boast? And now I ask, can
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Speaker 1: ye say aught of yourselves? I answer you, nay, ye
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Speaker 1: cannot say that ye are even as much as the
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Speaker 1: dust of the earth. Ye that ye were created of
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Speaker 1: the dust of the earth. But behold, it belongeth to
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Speaker 1: him who created you. And I, even I, whom ye
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Speaker 1: call your king, am no better than ye yourselves are,
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Speaker 1: For I am also of the dust. And ye behold
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Speaker 1: that I am old, and am about to yield up
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Speaker 1: this mortal frame to its mother Earth. Therefore, as I
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Speaker 1: set unto you that I had served you walking with
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Speaker 1: a clear conscience before God. Even so I at this
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Speaker 1: time have caused that ye should assemble yourselves together, that
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Speaker 1: I might be found blameless, and that your blood should
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Speaker 1: not come upon me when I shall stand to be
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Speaker 1: judged of God of the things whereof he hath commanded
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Speaker 1: me concerning you, I say unto you that I have
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Speaker 1: caused that ye should assemble yourselves together, that I might
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Speaker 1: rid my garments of your blood at this period of
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Speaker 1: time when I am about to go down to my grave,
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Speaker 1: that I might go down in peace, and my immortal
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Speaker 1: spirit may join the choirs above and singing the praises
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Speaker 1: of a just God. And moreover, I say unto you
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Speaker 1: that I have caused that ye should assemble yourselves together,
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Speaker 1: that I might declare unto you that I can no
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Speaker 1: longer be your teacher nor your king. For even at
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Speaker 1: this time my whole frame doth tremble exceedingly while attempting
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Speaker 1: to speak unto you. But the Lord God doth support me,
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Speaker 1: and hath suffered me that I should speak unto you,
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Speaker 1: and hath commanded me that I should declare unto you
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Speaker 1: this day that my son Mosiah is a king and
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Speaker 1: a ruler over you. And now, my brethren, I would
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Speaker 1: that ye should do as ye have hitherto done, as
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Speaker 1: ye have kept my commandments, and also the commandments of
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Speaker 1: my father, and have prospered and have been kept from
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Speaker 1: falling into the hands of your enemies. Even so, if
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Speaker 1: ye shall keep the commandments of my son, or the
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Speaker 1: commandments of God, which shall be delivered unto you by him,
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Speaker 1: ye shall prosper in the land, and your enemy shall
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Speaker 1: have no power over you. But o, my people, beware
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Speaker 1: lest there shall arise contentions among you. And ye list
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Speaker 1: to obey the evil spirit which was spoken of by
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Speaker 1: my father Mossiah. For behold, there is a woe pronounced
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Speaker 1: upon him who listeth to obey that spirit. For if
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Speaker 1: he listeth to obey him, and remaineth and dieth in
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Speaker 1: his sins, the same drinketh damnation to his own soul,
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Speaker 1: for he receiveth for his wages and everlasting punishment, having
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Speaker 1: transgressed the law of God contrary to his own knowledge.
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Speaker 1: I say unto you that there are not any among you,
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Speaker 1: except it be your little children that have not been
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Speaker 1: taught concerning these things. But what knoweth that ye are
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Speaker 1: eternally indebted to your heavenly Father to render to him
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Speaker 1: all that ye have and are, and also have been
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Speaker 1: taught concerning the records which contained the prophecies which have
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Speaker 1: been spoken by the Holy prophets even down to the
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Speaker 1: time of our father Lehi left Jerusalem, and also all
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Speaker 1: that has been spoken by our fathers until now. And
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Speaker 1: behold also they spake that which was commended them of
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Speaker 1: the Lord. Therefore they are just and true. And now
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Speaker 1: I say unto you, my brethren, that after ye have
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Speaker 1: known and have been taught all these things, if ye
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Speaker 1: should transgress and go contrary to that which has been spoken,
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Speaker 1: that ye do withdraw yourselves from the Spirit of the Lord,
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Speaker 1: that it may have no place in you to guide
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Speaker 1: you in wisdom's paths, that ye may be blessed, prospered,
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Speaker 1: and preserved. I say unto you that the man that
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Speaker 1: doeth this, the same cometh out in open rebellion against God.
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Speaker 1: Therefore he listeth to obey the evil spirit and becometh
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Speaker 1: an enemy to all righteousness. Therefore the Lord has no
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Speaker 1: place in him, for he dwelleth not in unholy temples. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: if that man repenteth not and remaineth and dieth an
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Speaker 1: enemy to God, the demands of divine justice do awaken
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Speaker 1: his immortal soul to a lively sense of his own guilt,
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Speaker 1: which doth cause him to shrink from the presence of
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Speaker 1: the Lord, and doth fill his breast with guilt and
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Speaker 1: pain and anguish, which is like an unquenchable fire, whose
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Speaker 1: flamecendeth up forever and ever. And now I say unto
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Speaker 1: you that mercy hath no claim on that man. Therefore
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Speaker 1: his final doom is to endure a never ending torment.
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Speaker 1: Oh all, ye old men, and also ye young men,
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Speaker 1: and you little children, who can understand my words, For
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Speaker 1: I have spoken plainly unto you that ye might understand.
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Speaker 1: I pray that ye should awake to a remembrance of
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Speaker 1: the awful situation of those that have fallen into transgression.
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Speaker 1: And moreover, I would desire that ye should consider on
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Speaker 1: the blessed and happy state of those that keep the
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Speaker 1: commandments of God. For behold, they are blessed in all things,
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Speaker 1: both temporal and spiritual. And if they hold out faithful
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Speaker 1: to the end they are received into heaven, that thereby
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Speaker 1: they may dwell with God in a state of never
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Speaker 1: ending happiness. Oh, remember, remember that these things are true,
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Speaker 1: for the Lord God hath spoken it. Chapter three. And again,
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Speaker 1: my brethren, I would call your attention, for I have
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Speaker 1: somewhat more to speak unto you. For behold, I have
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Speaker 1: things to tell you concerning that which is to come.
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Speaker 1: And the things which I shall tell you are made
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Speaker 1: known unto me by an angel from God. And he said,
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Speaker 1: unto me, awake, and I awoke, and behold he stood
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Speaker 1: before me, and he said, unto me, awake and hear
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Speaker 1: the words which I shall tell THEE. For behold, I
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Speaker 1: am come to declare unto you the glad tidings of
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Speaker 1: great joy. For the Lord hath heard thy prayers, and
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Speaker 1: hath judged of thy righteousness, and hath sent me to
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Speaker 1: declare unto THEE, that thou mayest rejoice, and that thou
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Speaker 1: mayest declare unto thy people that they may also be
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Speaker 1: filled with joy. For behold, the time cometh and is
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Speaker 1: not far distant, that with power the Lord Omnipotent, who reigneth,
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Speaker 1: who was and is from all eternity, to all eternity,
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Speaker 1: shall come down from heaven among the children of men,
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Speaker 1: and shall dwell in a tabernacle of clay, and shall
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Speaker 1: go forth amongst men, working mighty miracles, such as healing
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Speaker 1: the sick, raising the dead, causing the lame to walk,
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Speaker 1: the blind to receive their sight, and the death to hear,
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Speaker 1: and curing all manner of diseases. And he shall cast
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Speaker 1: out devils or the evil spirits which who dwell in
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Speaker 1: the hearts of the children of men. And lo, he
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Speaker 1: shall suffer temptations and pain of body, hunger, thirst, and fatigue,
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Speaker 1: even more than man can suffer, except it be unto death.
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Speaker 1: For behold, blood cometh from every pore. So great shall
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Speaker 1: be his anguish for the wickedness and the abominations of
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Speaker 1: his people. And he shall be called Jesus Christ, the
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Speaker 1: Son of God, the Father of heaven and Earth, the
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Speaker 1: creator of all things from the beginning, and his mother
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Speaker 1: shall be called Mary. And Lo, he cometh unto his
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Speaker 1: own that salvation might come unto the children of men,
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Speaker 1: even through faith on his name. And even after all this,
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Speaker 1: they shall consider him a man, and say that he
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Speaker 1: hath a devil, and shall scourge him, and shall crucify him,
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Speaker 1: and he shall rise the third day from the dead.
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Speaker 1: And behold, he standeth to judge the world. And behold,
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Speaker 1: all these things are done that a righteous judgment might
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Speaker 1: come upon the children of men. For behold, and also
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Speaker 1: his blood atoneth for the sins of those who have
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Speaker 1: fallen by the transgression of Adam, who have died not
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Speaker 1: knowing the will of God concerning them, or who hath
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Speaker 1: ignorantly sinned. But woe woe unto him who knoweth that
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Speaker 1: he rebelleth against God. For salvation cometh to none such,
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Speaker 1: except it be through repentance and faith on the Lord
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. And the Lord God hath sent his holy
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Speaker 1: prophets among all the children of men, to declare these
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Speaker 1: things to every kindred nation and tongue, that thereby whosoever
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Speaker 1: should believe that Christ should come the same might receive
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Speaker 1: remission of their sins and rejoice with exceedingly great joy,
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Speaker 1: even as though He had already come among them. Yet
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Speaker 1: the Lord God saw that his people were a stiff
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Speaker 1: necked people, and he appointed unto them a law, the
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Speaker 1: Law of Moses. And many signs and wonders and types
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Speaker 1: and shadows showed he unto them concerning his coming, and
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Speaker 1: also holy prophets spake unto them concerning his coming. And
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Speaker 1: yet they harden their hearts and understood not that the
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Speaker 1: law of Moses availeth nothing excepted were through the atonement
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Speaker 1: of His blood. And even if it were possible that
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Speaker 1: little children could sin, they could not be saved. But
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Speaker 1: I say unto you they are blest, for behold, as
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Speaker 1: in atom or by nature they fall, even so the
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Speaker 1: blood of Christ atoneth for their sins. And moreover, I
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Speaker 1: say unto you that there shall be no other name given,
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Speaker 1: nor any other way nor means whereby salvation can come
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Speaker 1: unto the children of men, only in and through the
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Speaker 1: name of Christ, the Lord omnipotent. For behold, he judgeth
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Speaker 1: and his judgment is just. And the infant perisheth not
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Speaker 1: that dieth in his end fancy. But men drink damnation
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Speaker 1: to their own souls, except they humble themselves and become
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Speaker 1: as little children, and believe that salvation was and is
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Speaker 1: and is to come in and through the atoning blood
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Speaker 1: of Christ, the Lord omnipotent. For the natural man is
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Speaker 1: an enemy to God, and has been from the fall
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Speaker 1: of Adam, and will be forever and ever unless he
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Speaker 1: yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit and putteth
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Speaker 1: off the natural man, and becometh a saint through the
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Speaker 1: atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient,
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Speaker 1: full of love, willing to submit to all things which
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Speaker 1: the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as
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Speaker 1: a child doth submit to his Father. And moreover, I
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Speaker 1: say unto you that the time shall come when the
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Speaker 1: knowledge of the Savior shall spread throughout every nation, kindred,
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Speaker 1: tongue and people. And hold, when that time cometh, none
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Speaker 1: shall be found blameless before God, except it be little children,
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Speaker 1: only through repentance and faith on the name of the
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Speaker 1: Lord God omnipotent. And even at this time, when thou
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Speaker 1: shalt have taught thy people the things which the Lord,
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Speaker 1: thy God hath commanded thee, even then are they found
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Speaker 1: no more blameless in the sight of God. Only according
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Speaker 1: to the words which I have spoken unto thee. And
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Speaker 1: now I have spoken the words which the Lord God
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Speaker 1: hath commanded me. And thus saith the Lord, they shall
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Speaker 1: stand as a bright testimony against this people at the
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Speaker 1: judgment day, whereof they shall be judged every man according
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Speaker 1: to his works, whether they be good or whether they
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Speaker 1: be evil. And if they be evil, they are consigned
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Speaker 1: to an awful view of their own guilt and abominations,
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Speaker 1: which doth cause them to shrink from the presence of
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Speaker 1: the Lord into a state of misery and endless torment,
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Speaker 1: from whence they can no more return. Therefore they have
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Speaker 1: drunk damnation to their own souls. Therefore they have drunk
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Speaker 1: out of the cup of the wrath of God, which
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Speaker 1: justice could no more deny unto them than it could
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Speaker 1: deny that Adam should fall because of his partaking of
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Speaker 1: the forbidden fruit. Therefore mercy could have claim on them
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Speaker 1: no more for ever. And their torment is as a
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Speaker 1: lake of fire and brimstone, whose flames are unquenchable, and
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Speaker 1: whose smoke ascendeth up forever and ever. Thus hath the
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Speaker 1: Lord commanded me Amen, And of the words of Mormon
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Speaker 1: and the Book of Mosiah, Chapters one through three,