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

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  Speaker 1: Second Nephi, chapters eight to eleven. Chapter eight, hearken unto me,
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  Speaker 1: ye that follow after righteousness, Look unto the rock from
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  Speaker 1: whence year hewn, and to the whole of the pit,
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  Speaker 1: from whence year digged. Look unto Abraham, your father, and
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  Speaker 1: unto Sarah, she that bear you. For I called him
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  Speaker 1: alone and blessed him. For the Lord shall comfort Zion.
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  Speaker 1: He will comfort all her waste places, and he will
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  Speaker 1: make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the
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  Speaker 1: garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness shall be found
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  Speaker 1: therein thanksgiving and the voice of melody. Hearken unto me,
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  Speaker 1: my people, and give ear unto me o my nation,
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  Speaker 1: For a law shall proceed from me, and I will
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  Speaker 1: make my judgment to rest for a light for the people.
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  Speaker 1: My righteousness is near, My salvation is gone forth, and
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  Speaker 1: mine arms shall judge the people. The isles shall wait
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  Speaker 1: upon me, and on mine arms shall they trust. Lift
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  Speaker 1: up your eyes to the heavens and look upon the
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  Speaker 1: earth beneath, For the heavens shall vanish away like smoke,
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  Speaker 1: and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and
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  Speaker 1: they that dwell therein shall die in like manner. But
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  Speaker 1: my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not
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  Speaker 1: be abolished. Hearken unto me, ye that no righteousness the
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  Speaker 1: people in whose heart I have written my law fear
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  Speaker 1: ye not the reproach of men. Neither be ye afraid
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  Speaker 1: of their revilings. For the moth shall eat them up
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  Speaker 1: like a garment, and the worms shall eat them like wool.
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  Speaker 1: But my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation from
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  Speaker 1: generation to generation. Awake, Awake, put on strength o arm
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. Awake, as in the ancient days, Art
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  Speaker 1: thou not he that hath cut Rahab and wounded the dragon.
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  Speaker 1: Art thou not he who hath dried the sea the
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  Speaker 1: waters of the great Deep, that hath made the depths
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  Speaker 1: of the sea away for the ransomed to pass over.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore the Redeemed the Lord shall return and come with
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  Speaker 1: singing unto Zion, and everlasting joy and holiness shall be
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  Speaker 1: upon their heads, and they shall obtain gladness and joy.
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  Speaker 1: Sorrow and mourning shall flee away. I am he yea,
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  Speaker 1: I am he that comforteth you behold. Who art thou
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  Speaker 1: that thou shouldst be afraid of man who shall die
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  Speaker 1: and of the son of man who shall be made
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  Speaker 1: like unto grass, and forgettest the Lord, thy maker, that
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  Speaker 1: hath stretched forth the heavens and laid the foundations of
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  Speaker 1: the earth, And hast feared continually every day because of
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  Speaker 1: the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready
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  Speaker 1: to destroy. And where is the fury of the oppressor?
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  Speaker 1: The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and
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  Speaker 1: that he should not die in the pit, nor that
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  Speaker 1: his bread should fail. But I am the Lord, thy god,
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  Speaker 1: whose waves roared. The Lord of hosts is my name,
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  Speaker 1: And I have put my words in thy mouth, and
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  Speaker 1: have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that
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  Speaker 1: I may plant the heavens and lay the foundations of
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  Speaker 1: the earth. And say, unto Zion, behold thou art, my people, awake, Awake,
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  Speaker 1: stand up o Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord the cup of his fury. Thou hast drunken,
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  Speaker 1: the dregs of the cup of trembling wrung out, And
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  Speaker 1: none to guide her among all the sons she hath
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  Speaker 1: brought forth, neither that taketh her. By the hand of
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  Speaker 1: all the sons, she hath brought up these two sons
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  Speaker 1: are come unto THEE, who shall be sorry for thee
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  Speaker 1: thy desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword.
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  Speaker 1: And by whom shall I comfort thee thy son have fainted,
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  Speaker 1: Save these two. They lie at the head of all
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  Speaker 1: the streets, as a wild bull in a net. They
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  Speaker 1: are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke
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  Speaker 1: of thy God. Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted and drunken,
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  Speaker 1: and not with wine. Thus saith thy Lord, the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and thy God pleadeth the cause of his people. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling,
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  Speaker 1: the dregs of the cup of my fury. Thou shalt
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  Speaker 1: no more drink it again, but I will put it
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  Speaker 1: into the hand of them that afflict THEE who have
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  Speaker 1: said to thy soul, bow down, that we may go over.
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  Speaker 1: And Thou hast laid thy body as the ground and
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  Speaker 1: as the street to them that went over. Awake, Awake,
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  Speaker 1: put on thy strength those eye, and put on thy
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  Speaker 1: beautiful garments. O Jerusalem, the Holy City, For henceforth there
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  Speaker 1: shall no more come into thee the uncircumstance and the unclean.
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  Speaker 1: Shake thyself from the dust arise, sit down, O Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive
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  Speaker 1: daughter of Zion. Chapter nine. And now, my beloved brethren,
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  Speaker 1: I have read these things that ye might know concerning
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  Speaker 1: the covenance of the Lord, that he has covenanted with
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  Speaker 1: all the House of Israel, that he has spoken unto
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  Speaker 1: the Jews by the mouth of his holy prophets, even
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  Speaker 1: from the beginning down from generation to generation, until the
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  Speaker 1: time comes that they shall be restored to the true
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  Speaker 1: Church enfold of God, when they shall be gathered home
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  Speaker 1: to the lands of their inheritance, and shall be established
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  Speaker 1: in all their lands of promise. Behold, my beloved brethren,
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  Speaker 1: I speak unto you these things, that ye may rejoice
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  Speaker 1: and lift up your heads forever because of the blessings
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  Speaker 1: which the Lord God shall bestow upon your children. For
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  Speaker 1: I know that ye have searched much, many of you
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  Speaker 1: to know of things to come. Wherefore I know that
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  Speaker 1: ye know that our flesh must waste away and die. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: in our bodies we shall see God. Yea. I know
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  Speaker 1: that ye know that in the body He shall show
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  Speaker 1: himself unto those of Jerusalem, from whence we came for it.
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  Speaker 1: Is expedient that it should be among them. For it
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  Speaker 1: behooveth the Great Creator, that he suffereth himself to become
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  Speaker 1: subject unto man in the flesh and die for all men,
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  Speaker 1: that all men might become subject unto him. For as
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  Speaker 1: death hath passed upon all men. To fulfill the merciful
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  Speaker 1: plan of the Great Creator, there must needs be a
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  Speaker 1: power of resurrection, And the resurrection must needs come unto
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  Speaker 1: man by reason of the fall, and the fall came
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  Speaker 1: by reason of transgression, And because man became fallen, they
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  Speaker 1: were cut off from the presence of the Lord. Wherefore
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  Speaker 1: it must needs be an infinite atonement. Save it should
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  Speaker 1: be an infinite atonement, this corruption could not put on incorruption.
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  Speaker 1: Wherefore the first judgment which came upon man must needs
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  Speaker 1: have remained in an endless duration. And if so, this
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  Speaker 1: flesh must have laid down to rot and to crumble
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  Speaker 1: to its mother earth, to rise no more, Oh the
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  Speaker 1: wisdom of God, his mercy and grace. For behold, if
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  Speaker 1: the flesh should rise no more, our spirits must become
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  Speaker 1: subject to that angel who fell from before the presence
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  Speaker 1: of the eternal God and became the devil. To rise
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  Speaker 1: no more, and our spirits must have become like unto him,
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  Speaker 1: and we become devils angels to a devil, to be
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  Speaker 1: shut out from the presence of our God, and to
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  Speaker 1: remain with the Father of lies in misery, like unto himself. YEA,
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  Speaker 1: to that being who beguiled our first parents, who transformeth
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  Speaker 1: himself nigh unto an angel of light, and stirreth up
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  Speaker 1: the children of men, unto secret combinations of murder, and
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  Speaker 1: all manner of secret works of darkness. Oh, how great
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  Speaker 1: the goodness of our God, who prepareth away for our
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  Speaker 1: escape from the grasp of this awful monster. Yea, that
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  Speaker 1: monster death and hell, which I call the death of
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  Speaker 1: the body, and also the death of the spirit. And
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  Speaker 1: because of the way of deliverance of our God, the
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  Speaker 1: Holy One of Israel, this death of which I have spoken,
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  Speaker 1: which is the temporal, shall deliver up its dead, which
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  Speaker 1: death is the grave. And this death of which I
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  Speaker 1: have spoken, which is the spiritual death, shall deliver up
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  Speaker 1: its dead, which spiritual death is hell. Wherefore death and
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  Speaker 1: Hell must deliver up their dead, and hell must deliver
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  Speaker 1: up its captive spirits, and the grave must deliver up
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  Speaker 1: its captive bodies. And the bodies and the spirits of
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  Speaker 1: men will be restored one to the other. And it
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  Speaker 1: is by the power of the resurrection of the Holy
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  Speaker 1: One of Israel. Oh, how great the plan of our God.
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  Speaker 1: For on the other hand, the paradise of God must
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  Speaker 1: deliver up the spirits of the righteous, and the grave
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  Speaker 1: deliver up the body of the righteous, and the spirit
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  Speaker 1: and the body is restored to itself again, and all
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  Speaker 1: men become incorruptible and immortal. And they are living souls,
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  Speaker 1: having a perfect knowledge, like unto us in the flesh.
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  Speaker 1: Save it be that our knowledge shall be perfect. Wherefore
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  Speaker 1: we shall have a perfect knowledge of all our guilt
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  Speaker 1: and our uncleanness and our nakedness. And the righteous shall
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  Speaker 1: have a perfect knowledge of their enjoyment and their righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: being clothed with purity, yea, even with the robe of righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: And it shall come to pass that when all men
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  Speaker 1: shall have passed from this first death to life, insomuch
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  Speaker 1: as they have become immortal, they must appear before the
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  Speaker 1: judgment seat of the Holy One of Israel. And then
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  Speaker 1: cometh the judgment, And then must they be judged according
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  Speaker 1: to the holy judgment of God. And assuredly, as the
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  Speaker 1: Lord liveth. For the Lord God hath spoken it, and
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  Speaker 1: it is his eternal word which cannot pass away. That
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  Speaker 1: they who are righteous shall be righteous still, and they
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  Speaker 1: who are filthy shall be filthy still. Wherefore, they who
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  Speaker 1: are filthy are the Devil and his angels, And they
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  Speaker 1: shall go away into everlasting fire prepared for them. And
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  Speaker 1: their torment is as a lake of fire and brimstone,
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  Speaker 1: whose flame ascendeth up forever and ever, and has no
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  Speaker 1: end o the greatness and the justice of our God,
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  Speaker 1: For he executeth all his words, and they have gone
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  Speaker 1: forth out of his mouth, and his law must be fulfilled.
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  Speaker 1: But behold the righteous, the saints of the Holy One
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  Speaker 1: of Israel, They who have believed in the Holy One
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  Speaker 1: of Israel, They who have endured the crosses of the
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  Speaker 1: world and despised the shame of it. They shall inherit
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God, which was prepared for them from
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  Speaker 1: the foundation of the world. And their joy shall be
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  Speaker 1: full forever. Oh, the greatness of the mercy of our God,
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  Speaker 1: the Holy One of Israel. For he delivereth his saints
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  Speaker 1: from that awful monster, the devil, and death and hell,
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  Speaker 1: and that lake of fire and brimstone, which is endless torment. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: how great the holiness of our God. For he knoweth
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  Speaker 1: all things, and there is not anything save he knows it.
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  Speaker 1: And he cometh into the world that he may save
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  Speaker 1: all men, if they will hearken unto his voice. For behold,
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  Speaker 1: he suffereth the pains of all men, yea, the pains
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  Speaker 1: of every living creature, both men, women, and children, who
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  Speaker 1: belong to the family of Adam. And he suffereth this
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  Speaker 1: that the resurrection might pass upon all men, that all
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  Speaker 1: might stand before him at the great and judgment day.
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  Speaker 1: And he commandeth all men that they must repent and
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  Speaker 1: be baptized in His name, having perfect faith in the
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  Speaker 1: Holy One of Israel, or they cannot be saved in
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God. And if they will not repent
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  Speaker 1: and believe in His name and be baptized in His name,
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  Speaker 1: and endure to the end, they must be damned. For
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  Speaker 1: the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, has spoken it.
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  Speaker 1: Wherefore he has given a law. And where there is
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  Speaker 1: no law given, there is no punishment. And where there
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  Speaker 1: is no punishment, there is no condemnation. And where there
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  Speaker 1: is no condemnation, the mercies of the Holy One of
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  Speaker 1: Israel have claim upon them because of the Atonement, For
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  Speaker 1: they are delivered by the power of Him. For the
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  Speaker 1: atonement satisfieth the demands of His justice upon all those
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  Speaker 1: who have not the law given to them. That they
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  Speaker 1: are delivered from that awful monster death, and hell, and
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  Speaker 1: the devil, and the lake of fire and brimstone, which
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  Speaker 1: is endless torment. And they are restored to that God
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  Speaker 1: who gave them breath, which is the Holy One of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: But woe unto him that has the law given yea
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  Speaker 1: that has all the commandments of God like unto us,
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  Speaker 1: and that transgresseth them, and that wasteth the days of
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  Speaker 1: his probation. For awful is his state, Oh, that cunning
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  Speaker 1: plan of the evil One. Oh the vainness and the
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  Speaker 1: frailties and the foolishness of men. When they are learned,
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  Speaker 1: they think they are wise, and they hearken not unto
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  Speaker 1: the counsel of God. For they set it aside, supposing
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  Speaker 1: they know of themselves. Wherefore their wisdom is foolishness, and
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  Speaker 1: it profiteth them not, and they shall perish. But to
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  Speaker 1: be learned is good good. If they hearken unto the
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  Speaker 1: counsels of God. But woe unto the rich who are
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  Speaker 1: rich as to the things of the world, For because
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  Speaker 1: they are rich, they despise the poor, and they persecute
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  Speaker 1: the meek. And their hearts are upon their treasures. Wherefore
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  Speaker 1: their treasure is their God. And behold, their treasure shall
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  Speaker 1: perish with them also, And woe unto the death that
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  Speaker 1: will not hear, for they shall perish. Woe unto the
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  Speaker 1: blind that will not see, for they shall perish. Also.
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  Speaker 1: Woe unto the uncircumcised of heart, for a knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: their iniquities shall smite them at the last day. Woe
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  Speaker 1: unto the lyre, for he shall be thrust down to hell.
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  Speaker 1: Woe unto the murderer who deliberately killeth, for he shall die.
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  Speaker 1: Woe unto them who commit hortoms, for they shall be
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  Speaker 1: thrust down to hell. Yea woe unto those that worship idols,
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  Speaker 1: for the devil of all devils delighteth in them, and
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  Speaker 1: in fine Woe unto all those who die in their sins,
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  Speaker 1: for they shall return to God and behold His face,
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  Speaker 1: and remain in their sins. O, my beloved brethren, remember
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  Speaker 1: the awfulness in transgressing against that Holy God, and also
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  Speaker 1: the awfulness of yielding to the enticings of that cunning one. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: to be carnally minded is death, and to be spiritually
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  Speaker 1: minded is life eternal. O, my beloved brethren, give ear
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  Speaker 1: to my words. Remember the greatness of the Holy One
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  Speaker 1: of Israel. Do not say that I have spoken hard
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  Speaker 1: things against you, For if ye do, ye will revile
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  Speaker 1: against the truth. For I have spoken the words of
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  Speaker 1: your Maker. I know that the words of truth are
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  Speaker 1: hard against all uncleanness. But the righteous fear them not,
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  Speaker 1: for they love the truth and are not shaken. O. Then,
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  Speaker 1: my beloved brethren, come unto the Lord, the Holy One,
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  Speaker 1: Remember that his paths are righteous. Behold, the way for
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  Speaker 1: man is narrow, but it lieth in a straight course
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  Speaker 1: before him. And the keeper of the gate is the
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  Speaker 1: Holy One of Israel. And he employeth no servant there.
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  Speaker 1: And there is none other way save it be by
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  Speaker 1: the gate. For he cannot be deceived. For the Lord
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  Speaker 1: God is his name. And whoso knocketh to him will
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  Speaker 1: he open. And the wise and the learned, and they
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  Speaker 1: that are rich, who are puffed up because of their
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  Speaker 1: learning and their wisdom and their riches. Yea, they are
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  Speaker 1: they whom He despiseth and save. They shall cast these
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  Speaker 1: things away and consider themselves fools before God, and come
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  Speaker 1: down in the depths of humility. He will not owe
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  Speaker 1: unto them. But the things of the wise and the
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  Speaker 1: prudent shall be hid from them forever. Yea, that happiness
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  Speaker 1: which is prepared for the saints. O, my beloved brethren,
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  Speaker 1: remember my words. Behold, I take off my garments, and
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  Speaker 1: I shake them before you. I pray the God of
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  Speaker 1: my salvation, that he view me with his all searching eye.
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  Speaker 1: Wherefore ye shall know that at the last day, when
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  Speaker 1: all men shall be judged of their works, that the
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  Speaker 1: God of Israel did witness that I shook your iniquities
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  Speaker 1: from my soul, and that I stand with brightness before
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  Speaker 1: him and am rid of your blood. O, my beloved brethren,
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  Speaker 1: turn away from your sins, shake off the chains of
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  Speaker 1: him that would bind you fast. Come unto that God
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  Speaker 1: who is the rock of your salvation. Prepare your souls
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  Speaker 1: for that glorious day when justice shall be administered unto
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  Speaker 1: the righteous, even the day of judgment, that ye may
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  Speaker 1: not shrink with awful fear that ye may not remember
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  Speaker 1: your awful guilt in perfectness and be constrained to exclaim. Holy,
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  Speaker 1: Holy are thy judgments, O, Lord God Almighty. But I
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  Speaker 1: know my guilt. I transgressed Thy law, and my transgressions
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  Speaker 1: are mine. And the devil hath obtained me, that I
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  Speaker 1: am a prey to his awful misery. But behold, my brethren,
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  Speaker 1: is it expedient that I should awake you to an
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  Speaker 1: awful reality? Of these things? Would I harrow up your souls?
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  Speaker 1: If your minds were pure? Would I be plain unto
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  Speaker 1: you according to the plainness of the truth, if ye
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  Speaker 1: were freed from sin? Behold, if ye were holy, I
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  Speaker 1: would speak unto you of holiness. But as ye are
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  Speaker 1: not holy, and ye look upon me as a teacher,
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  Speaker 1: it must needs be expedient that I teach you the
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  Speaker 1: consequences of sin. Behold, my soul aboreth sin, and my
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  Speaker 1: heart delighteth in righteousness, and I will praise the Holy
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  Speaker 1: name of my God. Come, my brethren, every one that thirsteth,
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  Speaker 1: come ye to the waters. And he that hath no money,
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  Speaker 1: come by and eat yea come by wine and milk,
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  Speaker 1: without money and without price. Wherefore, do not spend money
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  Speaker 1: for that which is of no worth, nor your labor
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  Speaker 1: for that which cannot satisfy. Hearken diligently unto me, and
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  Speaker 1: remember the words which I have spoken, and come unto
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  Speaker 1: the Holy One of Israel, and feast upon that which
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  Speaker 1: perisheth not neither can be corrupted. And let your soul
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  Speaker 1: delight in fatness. Behold, my beloved brethren, remember the words
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  Speaker 1: of your God. Pray unto him continually by day, and
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  Speaker 1: give thanks unto his holy name. By night. Let your
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  Speaker 1: hearts rejoice, and behold, how great the covenants of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and how great is condescensions unto the children of men.
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  Speaker 1: And because of His greatness and his grace and mercy,
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  Speaker 1: he has promised unto us that our seeds shall not
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  Speaker 1: utterly be destroyed according to the flesh, but that He
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  Speaker 1: would preserve them, and in future generations they shall become
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  Speaker 1: a righteous branch unto the House of Israel. And now,
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  Speaker 1: my brethren, I would speak unto you no more, but
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  Speaker 1: on the morrow I will declare unto you the remainder
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  Speaker 1: of my words. Amen. Chapter ten. And now I, Jacob
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  Speaker 1: speak unto you again, my beloved brethren, concerning this righteous
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  Speaker 1: branch of which I have spoken. For Behold, the promises
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  Speaker 1: which we have obtained are promises unto us according to
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  Speaker 1: the flesh. Wherefore, as it has been shown unto me
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  Speaker 1: that many of our children shall perish in the flesh
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  Speaker 1: because of unbelief, Nevertheless, God will be merciful unto many,
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  Speaker 1: and our children shall be restored, that they may come
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  Speaker 1: to that which will give them the true knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: their redeemer. Wherefore, as I said unto you, it must
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  Speaker 1: needs be expedient that Christ, For in the last night
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  Speaker 1: the angels spake unto me that this should be his name,
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  Speaker 1: should come among the Jews, among those who are the
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  Speaker 1: more wicked part of the world, and they shall crucify him.
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  Speaker 1: For thus it behooveth our God. And there is none
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  Speaker 1: other nation on earth that would crucify their God. For
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  Speaker 1: should the mighty miracles be wrought among other nations, they
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  Speaker 1: would repent and know that he be their God. But
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  Speaker 1: because of priest crafts and iniquities, they at Jerusalem will
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  Speaker 1: stiffen their necks against him, that he be crucified. Wherefore,
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  Speaker 1: because of their iniquities, destructions, famines, pestilencesnes and bloodshed shall
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  Speaker 1: come upon them, and they who shall not be destroyed,
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  Speaker 1: shall be scattered among all nations. But behold, thus saith
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  Speaker 1: the Lord God, when the day cometh, that they shall
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  Speaker 1: believe in me that I am Christ. Then have I
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  Speaker 1: covenanted with their fathers, that they shall be restored in
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  Speaker 1: the flesh upon the earth unto the lands of their inheritance.
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  Speaker 1: And it shall come to pass that they shall be
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  Speaker 1: gathered in from their long dispersion, from the isles of
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  Speaker 1: the sea and from the four parts of the earth.
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  Speaker 1: And the nations of the gentiles shall be great in
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of me, saith God in carrying them forth
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  Speaker 1: to the lands of their inheritance. Yea, the kings of
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  Speaker 1: the gentiles shall be nursing fathers unto them, and their
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  Speaker 1: queens shall become nursing mothers. Wherefore the promises of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord are great unto the gentiles, for he hathken it.
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  Speaker 1: And who can dispute, But behold, this land, said God,
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  Speaker 1: shall be a land of Thine inheritance, And the gentiles
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  Speaker 1: shall be blessed upon the land. And this land shall
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  Speaker 1: be a land of liberty unto the gentiles. And there
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  Speaker 1: shall be no kings upon the land who shall raise
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  Speaker 1: up unto the gentiles, and I will fortify this land
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  Speaker 1: against all other nations. And he that fighteth against Zion
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  Speaker 1: shall perish. Saith God, for he that raiseth up a
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  Speaker 1: king against me shall perish. For I, the Lord, the
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  Speaker 1: King of Heaven, will be their king, and I will
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  Speaker 1: be a light unto them forever that hear my words. Wherefore,
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  Speaker 1: for this cause that my covenants may be fulfilled, which
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  Speaker 1: I have made under the children of men, that I
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  Speaker 1: will do unto them while they are in the flesh,
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  Speaker 1: I must needs destroy the secret works of darkness, and
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  Speaker 1: of murders, and of a bombas nations. Wherefore, he that
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  Speaker 1: fighteth against Zion, both jew and gentile, both bond and free,
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  Speaker 1: both male and female, shall perish. For they are they
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  Speaker 1: who are the whore of all the earth. For they
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  Speaker 1: who are not of me are against me. Saith our God,
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  Speaker 1: for I will fulfill my promises which I have made
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  Speaker 1: under the children of men, that I will do unto
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  Speaker 1: them while they are in the flesh. Wherefore, my beloved brethren,
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  Speaker 1: thus saith our God, I will afflict thy seed by
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  Speaker 1: the hand of the gentiles. Nevertheless, I will soften the
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  Speaker 1: hearts of the Gentiles, that they shall be like unto
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  Speaker 1: a father to them. Wherefore the Gentiles shall be blessed
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  Speaker 1: and numbered among the House of Israel. Wherefore I will
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  Speaker 1: consecrate this land unto thy seed, and them who shall
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  Speaker 1: be numbered among Thy seed forever, for the land of
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  Speaker 1: their inheritance. For it is a choice land, saith God,
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  Speaker 1: unto Me, above all other lands. Wherefore I will have
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  Speaker 1: all men that dwell thereon, that they shall worship Me
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  Speaker 1: saith God. And Now, my beloved brethren, seeing that our
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  Speaker 1: merciful God has given us so great knowledge concerning these things,
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  Speaker 1: let us remember him and lay aside our sins and
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  Speaker 1: not hang down our heads, for we are not cast off. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: we have been driven out of the land of our inheritance,
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  Speaker 1: but we have been led to a better land. For
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  Speaker 1: the Lord has made the sea our path, and we
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  Speaker 1: are upon an isle of the sea. But great are
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  Speaker 1: the promises of the Lord unto them who are upon
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  Speaker 1: the isles of the sea. Wherefore, as it says isles,
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  Speaker 1: there must needs be more than this, And they are
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  Speaker 1: inhabited also by our brethren. For behold, the Lord God
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  Speaker 1: has led away from time to time from the House
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  Speaker 1: of Israel according to His will and pleasure. And now behold,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord remembereth all them who have been broken off.
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  Speaker 1: Wherefore he remembereth us. Also. Therefore, cheer up your hearts,
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  Speaker 1: and remember that ye are free to act for yourselves,
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  Speaker 1: to choose the way of everlasting death or the way
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  Speaker 1: of eternal life. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, reconcile yourselves to
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  Speaker 1: the will of God and not to the will of
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  Speaker 1: the devil and the flesh. And remember, after ye are
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  Speaker 1: reconciled unto God, that it is only in and through
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  Speaker 1: the grace of God that ye are saved. Wherefore, may
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  Speaker 1: God raise you from death by the power of the Resurrection,
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  Speaker 1: and also from everlasting death by the power of the Atonement,
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  Speaker 1: that ye may be received unto the eternal Kingdom of God,
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  Speaker 1: that ye may praise Him through grace Divine Amen. Chapter eleven.
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  Speaker 1: And now Jacob spake many more things to my people
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  Speaker 1: at that time. Nevertheless, only these things have I cause
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  Speaker 1: to be written. For the things which I have written,
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  Speaker 1: sufficeth me. And now I, Nephi, write more of the
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  Speaker 1: words of Isaiah. For my soul delighteth in his words,
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  Speaker 1: for I will liken his words unto my people, and
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  Speaker 1: I will send them forth unto all my children. For
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  Speaker 1: he verily saw my Redeemer, even as I have seen him,
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  Speaker 1: and my brother Jacob also has seen him as I
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  Speaker 1: have seen him. Wherefore I will send their words forth
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  Speaker 1: unto my children, to prove unto them that my words
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  Speaker 1: are true. Wherefore by the words of three God hath said,
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  Speaker 1: I will establish my word. Nevertheless, God sendeth more witnesses,
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  Speaker 1: and he proveth all his words. Behold, my soul delighteth,
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  Speaker 1: improving unto my people the truth of the coming of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: For for this end hath the law of Moses been given.
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  Speaker 1: And all things which have been given of God from
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of the world unto man, are the typifying
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  Speaker 1: of Him. And also my soul delighteth in the covenance
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord, which he hath made to our fathers. Yea,
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  Speaker 1: my soul delighteth in His grace and in His justice
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  Speaker 1: and power and mercy, in the great and eternal plan
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  Speaker 1: of deliverance from death. And my soul delighteth in proving
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  Speaker 1: unto my people that save Christ should come, all men
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  Speaker 1: must perish. For if there be no Christ, there be
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  Speaker 1: no God. And if there be no God, we are not,
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  Speaker 1: for there could have been no creation. But there is
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  Speaker 1: a God, and he is Christ, and he cometh in
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  Speaker 1: the fullness of his own own time. And now I
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  Speaker 1: write some of the words of Isaiah, that whoso of
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  Speaker 1: my people shall see these words may lift up their
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  Speaker 1: hearts and rejoice for all men. Now these are the words,
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  Speaker 1: and ye may liken them unto you and unto all men.
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  Speaker 1: End of Second Nephi, chapters eight to eleven.