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055 - On the Death of the Rev Mr George Whitefield · Sermons on Several Occasions, First Series

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  Speaker 1: Section number fifty four of Sermons on Several Occasions First Series.
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  Speaker 1: Several Occasions, First series by John Wesley. Sermon number fifty
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  Speaker 1: three on the death of the Reverend Mister George Whitefield,
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  Speaker 1: preached at the Chapel in Tottenham Court Road and at
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  Speaker 1: the Tabernacle near Moorfields on Sunday, November eighteenth, seventeen seventy.
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  Speaker 1: Let my death be the death of the righteous, and
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  Speaker 1: let my last end be like his numbers twenty three ten.
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  Speaker 1: Let my last end be like his? How many of
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  Speaker 1: you join in this wish? Perhaps there are a few
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  Speaker 1: of you who do not, even in this numerous congregation.
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  Speaker 1: And Oh, that this wish may rest upon your mind,
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  Speaker 1: that it may not die away till your souls also
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  Speaker 1: are lodged where the wicked cease from troubling, and where
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  Speaker 1: the weary are at rest. An elaborate exposition the text
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  Speaker 1: will not be expected on this occasion. It would detain
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  Speaker 1: you too long from the sadly pleasing thought of your
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  Speaker 1: beloved brother, friend, and pastor yea, and father too, For
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  Speaker 1: how many here whom he hath begotten in the Lord?
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  Speaker 1: Will it not then be more suitable to your inclinations
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  Speaker 1: as well as to this solemnity directly to speak of
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  Speaker 1: this Man of God whom you have heard so often
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  Speaker 1: speaking in this place, the end of whose conversation you know,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and to day and forever.
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  Speaker 1: And may we not observe a few particulars of his
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  Speaker 1: life and death, take some view of his character, and
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  Speaker 1: inquire how we may improve this awful providence his sudden
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  Speaker 1: removal from us. We may, in the first place, observe
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  Speaker 1: a few particulars of his life and death. He was
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  Speaker 1: born at Gloucester in December seventeen fourteen, and put to
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  Speaker 1: a grammar school there when about twelve years old. When
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  Speaker 1: he was seventeen, he began to be seriously religious and
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  Speaker 1: served God to the best of his knowledge. About eighteen
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  Speaker 1: he removed to the university and was admitted at Pembroke
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  Speaker 1: College in Oxford, and about a year after he became
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  Speaker 1: acquainted with the Methodists, so called, whom from that time
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  Speaker 1: he loved as his own soul. By them, he was
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  Speaker 1: convinced that we must be born again, or outward religion
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  Speaker 1: will profit us nothing. He joined with them in fasting
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesdays and Fridays, in visiting the sick and the prisoners,
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  Speaker 1: and in gathering up the very fragments of time, that
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  Speaker 1: no moment might be lost, And he changed the course
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  Speaker 1: of his studies, reading chiefly such books as entered into
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  Speaker 1: the heart of religion and led directly to an experimental
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of Jesus Christ and him crucified. He was soon
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  Speaker 1: tried as with fire. Not only his reputation was lost,
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  Speaker 1: and some of his dearest friends forsook him, but he
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  Speaker 1: was exercised with inward trials and those of the severest kind.
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  Speaker 1: Many nights he lay sleepless upon his bed, many days
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  Speaker 1: prostrate on the ground. But after he had groaned several
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  Speaker 1: months under the spirit of bondage, God was pleased to
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  Speaker 1: remove the heavy load by giving him the spirit of adoption,
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  Speaker 1: enabling him, through a living faith, to lay hold on
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  Speaker 1: the son of his love. However, it was thought needful
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  Speaker 1: for the recovery of his health, which was much impaired,
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  Speaker 1: that he should go into the country. He accordingly went
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  Speaker 1: to Gloucester, where God enabled him to awaken several young persons.
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  Speaker 1: These soon formed themselves into a little society, and were
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  Speaker 1: some of the first fruits of his labor. Shortly after
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  Speaker 1: he began to read twice or thrice a week to
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  Speaker 1: some poor people in the town, and every day to
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  Speaker 1: read to and pray with the prison in the county jail.
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  Speaker 1: Being now about twenty one years of age, he was
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  Speaker 1: solicited to enter into Holy orders. Of this he was
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  Speaker 1: greatly afraid, being deeply sensible of his own insufficiency, But
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  Speaker 1: the Bishop himself sending for him, and telling him, though
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  Speaker 1: I had purpose to ordain none under three and twenty,
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  Speaker 1: yet will I ordain you whenever you come, and several
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  Speaker 1: other providential circumstances concurring, he submitted and was ordained on
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  Speaker 1: Trinity Sunday, seventeen thirty six. The next Sunday he preached
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  Speaker 1: to a crowded auditory in the church, wherein he was baptized.
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  Speaker 1: The week following he returned to Oxford and took his
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  Speaker 1: bachelor's degree. And he was now fully employed the care
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  Speaker 1: of the prisoners and the poorer lying chiefly on him.
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  Speaker 1: But it was not long before he was invited to
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  Speaker 1: London to serve the cure of a friend going into
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  Speaker 1: the country. He continued there two months, lodging in the tower,
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  Speaker 1: reading prayers in the chapel twice a week, catechising and
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  Speaker 1: preaching once beside visiting the soldiers in the barracks and
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  Speaker 1: the infirmary. He also read prayers every evening at Wapping
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  Speaker 1: Chapel and preached at Ludgate Prison every Tuesday. While he
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  Speaker 1: was here, letters came from his friends in Georgia, which
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  Speaker 1: made him long to go and help them, but not
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  Speaker 1: seeing his call clear at the appointed time, he returned
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  Speaker 1: to his little charge at Oxford, where several youths met
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  Speaker 1: daily at his room to build up each other in
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  Speaker 1: their most holy faith. But he was quickly called from
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  Speaker 1: hence again to supply the cure of Dummer in Hampshire.
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  Speaker 1: Here he read prayers twice a day, early in the
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  Speaker 1: morning and in the evening after the people came from work.
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  Speaker 1: He also daily catechised the children and visited from house
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  Speaker 1: to house. He now divided the day into three parts,
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  Speaker 1: allotting eight hours for sleep and meals, ate for studying, retirement,
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  Speaker 1: and ate for reading prayers, catechise and visiting the people.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a more excellent way for a servant of
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  Speaker 1: Christ in his church? If not, who will go and
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  Speaker 1: do likewise? Yet his mind still ran on going abroad,
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  Speaker 1: and being now fully convinced he was called of God
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  Speaker 1: there too, he set all things in order, and in
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  Speaker 1: January seventeen thirty seven went down to take leave of
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  Speaker 1: his friends in Gloucester. It was in this journey that
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  Speaker 1: God began to bless his ministry in an uncommon manner.
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  Speaker 1: Wherever he preached, amazing multitudes of hearers flocked together in
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  Speaker 1: Gloucester and Stone House in Bath and Bristol, so that
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  Speaker 1: the heat of the churches was scarce supportable, and the
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  Speaker 1: impressions made on the minds of many were no less extraordinary.
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  Speaker 1: After his return to London, while he was detained by
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  Speaker 1: General Oglethorpe from week to week and from month to month,
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  Speaker 1: it pleased God to bless his words still more, and
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  Speaker 1: he was indefatigable in his labor. Generally, on Sunday he
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  Speaker 1: preached four times to exceed, eating large auditories, beside reading
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  Speaker 1: prayers twice or thrice, and walking to and fro often
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  Speaker 1: ten or twelve miles. On December twenty eighth he left London.
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  Speaker 1: It was on the twenty ninth that he first preached
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  Speaker 1: without notes. December thirtieth he went on board, but it
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  Speaker 1: was above a month before they cleared the land. One
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  Speaker 1: happy effect of their very slow passage, he mentions in
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  Speaker 1: April following, Blessed be God, we now live very comfortably
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  Speaker 1: in the Great cabin. We talk of little else but
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  Speaker 1: God and Christ, and scarce a word is heard among
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  Speaker 1: us when together. But what has reference to our fall
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  Speaker 1: in the first and our new birth in the second? Adam,
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  Speaker 1: it seems likewise to have been a peculiar providence that
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  Speaker 1: he should spend a little time at Gibraltar, where both
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  Speaker 1: citizens and soldiers high and low, young and old, acknowledged
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  Speaker 1: the day of their visitation. From Sunday May seventh, seventeen
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight till the latter end of August fallowing, he
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  Speaker 1: made full proof of his ministry in Georgia, particularly at Savannah.
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  Speaker 1: He read prayers and expounded twice a day, and visited
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  Speaker 1: the sick daily. On Sunday he expounded at five in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, at ten read prayers and preached, and at
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  Speaker 1: three in the afternoon, and at seven in the evening
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  Speaker 1: expounded the Church Catechism. How much easier is it for
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  Speaker 1: our brethren in the ministry, either in England, Scotland or Ireland,
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  Speaker 1: to find fault with such a labor in our Lord's
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  Speaker 1: vineyard than to tread in his steps. It was now
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  Speaker 1: that he observed the deplorable condition of many children here,
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  Speaker 1: and that God put into his heart the first thought
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  Speaker 1: of founding an orphan house, for which he determined to
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  Speaker 1: raise contributions in England if God should give him a
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  Speaker 1: safe return thither. In December following he did return to London,
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  Speaker 1: and on Sunday, January fourteenth, seventeen thirty nine, he was
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  Speaker 1: ordained to priest at Christ Church, Oxford. The next day
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  Speaker 1: he came to London again, and on Sunday the twenty
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  Speaker 1: first preached twice. But though the churches were large and
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  Speaker 1: crowded exceedingly, yet many hundreds stood in the churchyard, and
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  Speaker 1: hundreds more returned home. This put him upon the first
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  Speaker 1: thought of preaching in the open air, but when he
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  Speaker 1: mentioned it to some of his friends, they judged it
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  Speaker 1: to be mere madness, so he did not carry it
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  Speaker 1: into execution till after he had left London. It was
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday February twenty first, that, finding all the church
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  Speaker 1: doors to be shut in Bristol, beside that no church
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  Speaker 1: was able to contain one half of the congregation, at
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  Speaker 1: three in the afternoon he went to Kingswood and preached
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  Speaker 1: abroad to near two thousand people. On Friday he preached
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  Speaker 1: there to four or five thousand, and on Sunday too
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  Speaker 1: it was supposed ten thousand. The number continually increased all
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  Speaker 1: the time he stayed at Bristol, and a flame of
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  Speaker 1: holy love was kindled which will not easily be put out.
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  Speaker 1: The same was afterwards kindled in various parts of Wales,
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  Speaker 1: of Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. Indeed, wherever he went, God abundantly
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  Speaker 1: confirmed the word of his messenger. On Sunday, April twenty ninth,
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  Speaker 1: he preached the first time in Moorefields and on Kennington Common,
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  Speaker 1: and the thousands of hearers were as quiet as they
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  Speaker 1: could have been in a church. Being again detained in England,
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  Speaker 1: from month to month, he made little excursions into several
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  Speaker 1: counties and received the contributions of willing multitudes for an
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  Speaker 1: orphan house in Georgia. The embargo, which was now laid
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  Speaker 1: on the shipping gave him leisure for more journeys through
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  Speaker 1: various parts of England, for which many will have reason
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  Speaker 1: to bless God to all eternity at length. On August
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  Speaker 1: fourteenth he embarked, but he did not land in Pennsylvania
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  Speaker 1: till October thirtieth. Afterwards, he went through Pennsylvania, the Jerseys,
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  Speaker 1: New York, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, preaching all
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  Speaker 1: along to immense congregations with full as great effect as
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  Speaker 1: in England. On January tenth, seventeen forty, he arrived at Savannah.
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  Speaker 1: January twenty ninth, he added three desolate orphans to near
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  Speaker 1: twenty which he had in his house. Before the next
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  Speaker 1: day he laid out the ground for the house about
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  Speaker 1: ten miles from Savannah. February eleventh, he took in four
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  Speaker 1: orphans more and set out for Fredrika in order to
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  Speaker 1: fetch the orphans that were in the southern parts of
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  Speaker 1: the colony. In his return, he fixed the school both
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  Speaker 1: for children and grown persons at Darien, and took four orphans.
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  Speaker 1: Thence March twenty fifth, he laid the first stone of
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  Speaker 1: the orphan house, to which with great propriety. He gave
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  Speaker 1: the name of Bethesda, a work for which the children
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  Speaker 1: yet unborn shall praise the Lord. He had now about
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  Speaker 1: forty orphans, so that there was near a hundred miles
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  Speaker 1: to be fed daily. But he was careful for nothing,
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  Speaker 1: casting his care on him who feeds the young ravens
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  Speaker 1: that call upon him. In April he made another tour
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  Speaker 1: through Pennsylvania, the Jerseys, and New York. Incredible multitudes flocked
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  Speaker 1: to hear, among whom were abundance of negroes. In all places,
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  Speaker 1: the greater part of the hearers were affected to an
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  Speaker 1: amazing degree. Many were deeply convinced of their lost state,
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  Speaker 1: many truly converted to God. In some places thousands cried
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  Speaker 1: out aloud, many as in the agonies of death. Most
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  Speaker 1: were drowned in tears. Some turned pale as death. Others
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  Speaker 1: were wringing their hands, others lying on the ground, others
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  Speaker 1: sinking into the arms of their friends, almost all lifting
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  Speaker 1: up their eyes and calling for mercy. He returned to
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  Speaker 1: Savannah June fifth. The next evening, during the public service,
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  Speaker 1: the whole congregation, young and old, were dissolved in tears.
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  Speaker 1: After service, several of the parishioners, and all his family,
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  Speaker 1: particularly the little children, returned home crying along the street,
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  Speaker 1: and some could not help praying aloud. The groans and
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  Speaker 1: cries of the children continued all night and great part
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  Speaker 1: of the next day. In August, he set out again,
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  Speaker 1: and through various provinces, came to Boston. While he was
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  Speaker 1: here and in the neighboring places, he was extremely weak
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  Speaker 1: in body. Yet the multitudes of hearers were so great,
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  Speaker 1: and the effects wrought on them so astonishing, as the
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  Speaker 1: oldest men then alive in the town had never seen before.
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  Speaker 1: The same power attended his preaching at New York, particularly
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, November second. Almost as soon as he began, crying,
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  Speaker 1: weeping and wailing were to be heard on every side.
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  Speaker 1: Many sunk down to the ground, cut to the heart,
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  Speaker 1: and many were filled with divine consolation. Toward the close
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  Speaker 1: of his journey, he made this reflection, it is the
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  Speaker 1: seventy fifth day since I arrived at Rhode Island, exceedingly
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  Speaker 1: weak in body, yet God has enabled me to preach
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  Speaker 1: a hundred and seventy five times in public, beside exhorting
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  Speaker 1: frequently in private. Never did God vouchsafe me greater comforts.
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  Speaker 1: Never did I perform my journeys with less fatigue, or
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  Speaker 1: see such a continuance of the divine presence in the
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  Speaker 1: congregations to whom I preached. In December he returned to Savannah,
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  Speaker 1: and the March following arrived in England. You may easily
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  Speaker 1: observe that the preceding account is chiefly extracted from his
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  Speaker 1: own journals, which, for all their artless and unaffected simplicity,
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  Speaker 1: may vie with any writings of the kind. And how
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  Speaker 1: exact a specimen is this of his labors, both in
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  Speaker 1: Europe and America, for the honor of his beloved Master
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  Speaker 1: during the thirty years that followed, as well as of
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  Speaker 1: the uninterrupted shower of blessings wherewith God was pleased to
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  Speaker 1: succeed his labors. Is it not much to be lamented
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  Speaker 1: that anything should have prevented his continuing this account till
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  Speaker 1: at least near the time when he was called by
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  Speaker 1: his Lord to enjoy the fruit of his labor. If
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  Speaker 1: he has left any papers of this kind, and his
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  Speaker 1: friends account me worthy of the honor, it would be
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  Speaker 1: my glory and joy to methodize, transcribe, and prepare them
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  Speaker 1: for the public view. A particular account of the last
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  Speaker 1: scene of his life is thus given by a gentleman
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  Speaker 1: of Boston. After being about a month with us in
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  Speaker 1: Boston and its vicinity, and preaching every day, he went
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  Speaker 1: to Old York preached on Thursday September twenty seventh. There
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  Speaker 1: proceeded to Portsmouth and preached there on Friday. On Saturday
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  Speaker 1: morning he set out for Boston, but before he came
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  Speaker 1: to Newbury, where he had engaged to preach the next morning.
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  Speaker 1: He was importune to preach by the way, the house,
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  Speaker 1: not being large enough to contain the people, he preached
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  Speaker 1: in an open field. But having been infirmed for several weeks,
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  Speaker 1: this so exhausted his strength that when he came to Newbury,
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  Speaker 1: who could not get out of the ferry boat without
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  Speaker 1: the help of two men. In the evening, however, he
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  Speaker 1: recovered his spirits and appeared with his usual cheerfulness. He
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  Speaker 1: went to his chamber at nine, his fixed time, which
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  Speaker 1: no company could divert him from, and slept better than
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  Speaker 1: he had done for some weeks before. He rose at
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  Speaker 1: four in the morning September thirtieth and went into his closet,
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  Speaker 1: and his companion observed he was unusually long in private.
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  Speaker 1: He left his closet, returned to his companion, threw himself
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  Speaker 1: on the bed, and lay about ten minutes. Then he
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  Speaker 1: fell upon his knees and prayed most fervently to God, that,
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  Speaker 1: if it was consistent with his will, he might that
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  Speaker 1: day finish his master's work. He then desired his man
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  Speaker 1: to call mister Parsons, the clergyman at whose house he was,
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  Speaker 1: But in a minute before mister Parsons could reach him,
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  Speaker 1: died without a sigh or groan. On the news of
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  Speaker 1: his death, six gentlemen set out for Newbury in order
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  Speaker 1: to bring his remains hither. But he could not be moved,
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  Speaker 1: so that his precious ashes must remain at Newbury. Hundreds
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  Speaker 1: would have gone from this town to attend his funeral,
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  Speaker 1: had they not expected he would have been interred. Here.
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  Speaker 1: May this stroke be sanctified to the Church of God
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  Speaker 1: in general, and to this province. In petus we are
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  Speaker 1: in the second place to take some view of his character.
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  Speaker 1: A little sketch of this was soon after published in
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  Speaker 1: the Boston Gazette, an extract of which is subjoined. Little
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  Speaker 1: can be said of him, but what every friend of
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  Speaker 1: vital Christianity, who has sat under his ministry will attest
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  Speaker 1: in his public labors. He has for many years astonished
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  Speaker 1: the world with his eloquence and devotion. With what divine
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  Speaker 1: pathos did he persuade the impenitent sinner to embrace the
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  Speaker 1: practice of piety and virtue. Filled with the spirit of grace,
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  Speaker 1: He spoke from the heart, and with a fervency of zeal,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps unequaled since the day of the Apostles, adorned the
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  Speaker 1: truths he delivered with the most graceful charms of rhetoric
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  Speaker 1: and oratory. From the pulpit. He was unrivaled in the
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  Speaker 1: command of an ever crowded auditory, Nor was he less
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  Speaker 1: agreeable and instructive in his private conversation, happy in a
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  Speaker 1: remarkable ease of address, willing to communicate, studious to edify.
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  Speaker 1: May the rising generation catch a spark of that flame
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  Speaker 1: which shone with such distinguished luster in the spirit and
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  Speaker 1: practice of this faithful servant of the Most High God.
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  Speaker 1: A more particular and equally just character of him has
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  Speaker 1: appeared in one of the English papers. It may not
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  Speaker 1: be disagreeable to you to add the substance of this. Likewise,
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  Speaker 1: the character of this truly pious person must be deeply
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  Speaker 1: impressed on the heart of every friend to vital religion.
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  Speaker 1: In spite of a tender and delicate constitution, he continued
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  Speaker 1: to the last day of his life preaching with a
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  Speaker 1: frequency and fervor that seemed to exceed the natural strength
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  Speaker 1: of the most robust. Being called to the exercise of
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  Speaker 1: his function. At an age when most young men are
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  Speaker 1: only beginning to qualify themselves for it, he had not
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  Speaker 1: time to make a very considerable progress in the learned languages.
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  Speaker 1: But this defect was amply supplied by a lively and
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  Speaker 1: fertile genius, by feverent zeal, and by forcible and most
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  Speaker 1: persuasive delivery. And though in the pulpit he often found
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  Speaker 1: it needful by the terrors of the Lord to persuade men,
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  Speaker 1: he had nothing gloomy in his nature. Being singularly cheerful
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  Speaker 1: as well as charitable and tender hearted, he was as
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  Speaker 1: ready to relieve the bodily as the spiritual necessity of
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  Speaker 1: those that applied to him. It ought also to be
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  Speaker 1: observed that he constantly enforced upon his audience every moral duty,
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  Speaker 1: particularly industry in their several callings, and obedience to their superiors.
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  Speaker 1: He endeavored by the most extraordinary efforts, in preaching in
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  Speaker 1: different places and even in the open fields, to rouse
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  Speaker 1: the lower class of people from the last degree of
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  Speaker 1: inattention and ignorance to a sense of religion. For this
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  Speaker 1: and his other labors, the name of George Whitefield will
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  Speaker 1: long be remembered with esteem and veneration. That both these
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  Speaker 1: accounts are just and impartial will readily be allowed. That
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  Speaker 1: is as far as they go. But they go little
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  Speaker 1: farther than the outside of his character. They show you
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  Speaker 1: the preacher, but not the man, the Christian, the Saint
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  Speaker 1: of God. May I be permitted to add a little
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  Speaker 1: on this head from a personal knowledge of near forty years. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: I am thoroughly sensible how difficult it is to speak
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  Speaker 1: on so delicate a subject. What prudence is required to
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  Speaker 1: avoid both extremes, to say neither too little nor too much? Nay,
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  Speaker 1: I know it is impossible to speak at all, to
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  Speaker 1: say either less or more, without incurring from some the former,
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  Speaker 1: from others the latter censor. Some will seriously think that
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  Speaker 1: too little is said, and others that it is too much.
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  Speaker 1: But without attending to this, I will speak just what
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  Speaker 1: I know before him, to whom we are all to
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  Speaker 1: give an account. Mention has been already made of his
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  Speaker 1: unparalleled zeal, his end of fatigable activity, his tender heartedness
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  Speaker 1: to the afflot did and charitableness towards the poor. But
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  Speaker 1: should we not likewise mention his deep gratitude to all
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  Speaker 1: whom God has uses instruments of good to him, of
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  Speaker 1: whom he did not cease to speak in the most
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  Speaker 1: respectful manner, even to his dying day. Should we not
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  Speaker 1: mention that he had a heart susceptible of the most
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  Speaker 1: generous and the most tender friendship. I have frequently thought
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  Speaker 1: that this, of all others, was the distinguishing part of
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  Speaker 1: his character. How few have we known of so kind
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  Speaker 1: a temper, of such large and flowing affections. Was it
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  Speaker 1: not principally by this that the hearts of others were
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  Speaker 1: so strangely drawn and knit to him? Can anything but
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  Speaker 1: love beget love? This shone in his very countenance, and
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  Speaker 1: continually breathed in all his words, whether in public or private.
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  Speaker 1: Was it not this which, quick in penetrating his lightning,
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  Speaker 1: flew from heart to heart, which gave that life to
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  Speaker 1: his sermons? His conversations his letters, Ye are witnesses, But
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  Speaker 1: away with the vile misconstruction of men of corrupt minds,
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  Speaker 1: who know of no love, but what is earthly and sensual.
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  Speaker 1: Be it remembered that at the same time he was
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  Speaker 1: endued with the most nice and unblemished modesty. His office
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  Speaker 1: called him to converse very frequently and largely with women
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  Speaker 1: as well as men, and those of every age and condition.
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  Speaker 1: But his whole behavior towards them was a practical comment
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  Speaker 1: of that advice of Saint Paul to Timothy. Entreat the
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  Speaker 1: elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all purity. Meantime,
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  Speaker 1: how suitable to the friendliness of his spirit was the
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  Speaker 1: frankness and openness of his conversation. Although it was as
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  Speaker 1: far removed from rudeness on the one hand as from
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  Speaker 1: guile and disguise on the other, was not this frankness
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  Speaker 1: at once a fruit and a proof of his courage
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  Speaker 1: and intrepidity. Armed with these, he feared not the faces
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  Speaker 1: of men, but used great plainness of speech to persons
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  Speaker 1: of everaes rank and condition, high and low, rich and poor,
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  Speaker 1: endeavoring only by manifestation of the truth to commend himself
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  Speaker 1: to every man's conscience in the sight of God. Neither
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  Speaker 1: was he afraid of pain or labor, any more than
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  Speaker 1: of what man could do unto him, being equally patient
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  Speaker 1: in bearing ill and doing well. And this appeared in
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  Speaker 1: the steadiness wherewith he pursued whatever he undertook for his
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  Speaker 1: master's sake. Witness one instance, for all the orphan house
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  Speaker 1: in Georgia, which he began and perfected in spite of
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  Speaker 1: all discouragements. Indeed, in whatever concerned himself, he was pliant
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  Speaker 1: and flexible. In this case he was easy to be entreated,
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  Speaker 1: either to be convinced or persuaded, But he was immovable
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  Speaker 1: in the things of God. Or wherever his conscience was concerned.
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  Speaker 1: None could persuade any more than affright him to vary
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  Speaker 1: in the least point from that integrity, which was inseparable
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  Speaker 1: from his whole character, and regulated all his words and actions.
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  Speaker 1: Herein he did stand as an iron pillar, strong and
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  Speaker 1: steadfast as a wall of brass. If it be inquired,
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  Speaker 1: what was the foundation of this integrity, or of his sincerity, courage, patience,
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  Speaker 1: in every other valuable and amiable quality, it is easy
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  Speaker 1: to give the answer. It was not the excellence of
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  Speaker 1: his natural temper, not the strength of his understanding. It
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  Speaker 1: was not the force of education, no nor the advice
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  Speaker 1: of his friends. It was no other than faith in
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  Speaker 1: a bleeding Lord, faith of the operation of God. It
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  Speaker 1: was a lively hope of an inheritance, incorruptible, undefiled, and
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  Speaker 1: that fateth not away. It was the love of God
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  Speaker 1: shed abroad in his heart by the Holy Ghost, which
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  Speaker 1: was given unto him, filling his soul with tender, disinterested
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  Speaker 1: love to every child of man. From this source arose
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  Speaker 1: that torrent of eloquence, which frequently bore down all before it.
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  Speaker 1: From this that astonish force of persuasion, which the most
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  Speaker 1: hardened sinners could not resist. This it was which often
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  Speaker 1: made his head as waters, and his eyes a fountain
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  Speaker 1: of tears. This it was which enabled him to pour
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  Speaker 1: out his soul in prayer in a manner peculiar to himself,
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  Speaker 1: with such fullness and ease, united together with such strength
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  Speaker 1: and variety, both the sentiment and expression. I may close
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  Speaker 1: this head with observing what an honor it pleased God
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  Speaker 1: to put upon his faithful servant by allowing him to
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  Speaker 1: declare his everlasting gospel in so many various countries, to
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  Speaker 1: such numbers of people, and with so great an effect
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  Speaker 1: on so many of their precious souls. Have we read
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  Speaker 1: or heard of any person since the Apostles who testified
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  Speaker 1: the gospel of the grace of God through so widely
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  Speaker 1: extended a space, through so large a part of the
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  Speaker 1: habitable world. Have we read or heard of any person
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  Speaker 1: who called so many thousands, so many myriads of sinners
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  Speaker 1: to repentance. Above all, have we read or heard of
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  Speaker 1: any who has been a blessed instrument in His hand
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  Speaker 1: of bringing so many sinners from darkness to light and
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  Speaker 1: from the power of Satan unto God. It is true,
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  Speaker 1: were we to talk thus to the gay world, we
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  Speaker 1: should be judged to speak as barbarians. But you understand
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  Speaker 1: the language of the country to which you are going,
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  Speaker 1: and whither our dear friend is gone a little before us.
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  Speaker 1: But how shall we improve this awful providence? This is
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  Speaker 1: the third thing which we have to consider. And the
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  Speaker 1: answer to this important question is easy. May God write
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  Speaker 1: it in all our hearts by keeping close to the
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  Speaker 1: grand doctrines which He delivered, and by drinking into His spirit.
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  Speaker 1: And first, let us keep close to the grand scriptural
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  Speaker 1: doctrines which he everywhere delivered. There are many doctrines of
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  Speaker 1: a less essential nature, with regard to which even the
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  Speaker 1: sincere children of God, such as the present weakness of
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  Speaker 1: human understands, are and have been divided for many ages.
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  Speaker 1: In these we may think, and let think, we may
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  Speaker 1: agree to disagree. But meantime, let us hold fast the
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  Speaker 1: essentials of the faith which was once delivered to the saints,
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  Speaker 1: and which this champion of God so strongly insisted on
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  Speaker 1: at all times and in all places. His fundamental point
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  Speaker 1: was give God the glory of whatever is good in man,
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  Speaker 1: and in the business of salvation. Set Christ as high
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  Speaker 1: and man as low as possible. With this point, he
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  Speaker 1: and his friends at Oxford, the original Methodists so called,
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  Speaker 1: set out their grand principle. There is no power by
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  Speaker 1: nature and no merit in man. They insisted. All power
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  Speaker 1: to think, speak, or act aright is in and from
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of Christ, and all merit is not in man,
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  Speaker 1: how high soe'er it in grace, but merely in the
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  Speaker 1: blood of Christ. So he and they taught, there is
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  Speaker 1: no power in man till it is given to him
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  Speaker 1: from above to do one good work, to speak one
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  Speaker 1: good word, or to form one good desire. For it
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  Speaker 1: is not enough to say all men are sick of sin. No,
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  Speaker 1: we are all dead in trespasses in sin. It follows
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  Speaker 1: that all the children of men are by nature children
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  Speaker 1: of wrath. We are all guilty before God, liable to
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  Speaker 1: death temporal and eternal. And we are all helpless both
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  Speaker 1: with regard to the power and to the guilt of sin.
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  Speaker 1: For who can bring a clean thing out of an
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  Speaker 1: unclean None less then the Almighty, Who can raise those
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  Speaker 1: that are dead spiritually dead in sin? None but He
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  Speaker 1: who raised us from the dust of the earth. But
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  Speaker 1: on what consideration will he do this? Not for the
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  Speaker 1: works of righteousness that we have done. The dead cannot
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  Speaker 1: praise thee O Lord, nor do anything for the sake
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  Speaker 1: of which they should be raised to life. Whatever therefore,
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  Speaker 1: God God does, he does it merely for the sake
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  Speaker 1: of his well beloved son. He was wounded for our transgressions,
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  Speaker 1: He was bruised for our iniquities. He himself bore all
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  Speaker 1: our sins in his own body upon the tree. He
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  Speaker 1: was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for
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  Speaker 1: our justification. Here, then, is the sole meritorious cause of
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  Speaker 1: every blessing we do or can enjoy, in particular of
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  Speaker 1: our pardon and acceptance with God of our full and
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  Speaker 1: free justification. By what means do we become interested in
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  Speaker 1: what Christ has done and suffered. Not by works, lest
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  Speaker 1: any man should boast, but by faith alone, we conclude,
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  Speaker 1: says the Apostle, that a man is justified by faith
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  Speaker 1: without the works of the law. And to as many
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  Speaker 1: as thus receive him, giveth he power to become the
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  Speaker 1: sons of God, even to those that believe in His name,
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  Speaker 1: who are born not to the will of man, but
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  Speaker 1: of God. And except a man be thus born again,
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  Speaker 1: he cannot see the kingdom of God. But all who
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  Speaker 1: are thus born of the Spirit have the Kingdom of
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  Speaker 1: God within them. Christ sets up his kingdom in their hearts, righteousness, peace,
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  Speaker 1: enjoying the holy ghost that mind is in them, which
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  Speaker 1: was in Christ Jesus, enabling them to walk as Christ
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  Speaker 1: also want. His indwelling spirit makes them both holy in
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  Speaker 1: heart and holy in all manner of conversation. But still
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  Speaker 1: seeing all this is a free gift through the righteousness
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  Speaker 1: and blood of Christ, there is eternally the same reason
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  Speaker 1: to remember He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: You are not ignorant that these are the fundamental doctrines
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  Speaker 1: which He everywhere insisted on. And may they not be
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  Speaker 1: summed up as it were in two words, the new
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  Speaker 1: birth and justification by faith. These let us insist upon
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  Speaker 1: with all boldness, at all times and in all places
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  Speaker 1: in public, those of us who are called there too,
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  Speaker 1: and at all opportunities in private, keep close to these good, old,
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  Speaker 1: unfashionable doctrines, how many soever contradict and blaspheme, go on,
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  Speaker 1: my brethren, in the name of the Lord and in
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  Speaker 1: the power of His might, with all care and diligence,
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  Speaker 1: keep that safe which is committed to your trust, knowing
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  Speaker 1: that heaven and earth shall pass away. But this truth
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  Speaker 1: shall not pass away. But will it be sufficient to
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  Speaker 1: keep close to His doctrines, how puresoever they are. Is
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  Speaker 1: there not a point of still greater importance than this, namely,
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  Speaker 1: to drink into His spirit herein, to be a follower
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  Speaker 1: of Him even as he was of Christ. Without this,
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  Speaker 1: the purity of our doctrines would only increase our condemnation. This, therefore,
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  Speaker 1: is the principal thing to copy after His spirit and
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  Speaker 1: allowing that in some points we must be content to
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  Speaker 1: admire what we cannot imitate, Yet in many others we may,
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  Speaker 1: through the same free grace, be partakers of the same
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  Speaker 1: blessing conscience. Then of your own wants and of His
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  Speaker 1: bounteous Love, who giveth liberally and upbraids nought. Cry to
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  Speaker 1: Him that works all in all for a measure of
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  Speaker 1: the same precious faith, of the same zeal and activity,
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  Speaker 1: the same tender heartedness, charitableness, bowels of mercy. Wrestle with
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  Speaker 1: God for some degree of the same grateful, friendly, affectionate temper,
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  Speaker 1: of the same openness, simplicity, and godly sincerity. Love without dissimulation.
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  Speaker 1: Wrestle on to the power from a high works in
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  Speaker 1: you the same steady courage, impatience, and, above all, because
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  Speaker 1: it is the crown of all the same invariable integrity.
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  Speaker 1: Is there any other fruit of the grace of God
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  Speaker 1: with which he was endily endowed, and the want of
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  Speaker 1: which among the children of God he frequently impassionately lamented.
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  Speaker 1: There is one that is Catholic love, that sincere and
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  Speaker 1: tender affection, which is due to all those who we
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  Speaker 1: have reason to believe are children of God by faith.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, all those in every persuasion who fear
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  Speaker 1: God and work righteousness. He longed to see all who
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  Speaker 1: had tasted of the good word of a true Catholic spirit,
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  Speaker 1: a word little understood and still less experienced by many
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  Speaker 1: who have it frequently in their mouth. Who is he
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  Speaker 1: that answers this character, Who is the man of a
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  Speaker 1: Catholic spirit, One who loves as friends, as brethren in
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, as joint partakers of the present Kingdom of Heaven,
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  Speaker 1: and fellow heirs of His eternal kingdom, All of whichever opinion,
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  Speaker 1: mode of worship, or congregation, who believe in the Lord Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: who love God, and man who rejoicing to please.
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  Speaker 2: And fearing to offend God, are careful to abstain from
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  Speaker 2: evil and zealous of good works. He is a man
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  Speaker 2: of a truly Catholic spirit who bears all these continually
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  Speaker 2: upon his.
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  Speaker 1: Heart, who, having an unspeakable tenderness for their persons and
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  Speaker 1: an earnest desire of their welfare, does not cease to
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  Speaker 1: commend them to God in prayer, as well as to
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  Speaker 1: plead their cause before men, who speaks comfortably to them,
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  Speaker 1: and labors by all his words to strengthen their hands.
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  Speaker 1: In God, He assists them to the uttermost of His
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  Speaker 1: power in all things spiritual and temporal. He is ready
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  Speaker 1: to spend and be spent for them. Yea, to lay
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  Speaker 1: down his life for his brethren. How amiable a character
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  Speaker 1: is this, how desirable to every child of God? But
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  Speaker 1: why is it then so rarely found? How is it
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  Speaker 1: that there are so few instances of it? Indeed, supposing
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  Speaker 1: we have tasted of the love of God, how could
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  Speaker 1: any of us rest till it is our own? Why
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  Speaker 1: there is a delicate device whereby Satan persuades thousands that
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  Speaker 1: they may stop short of it and yet be guiltless.
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  Speaker 1: It is well if many here present are not in
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  Speaker 1: the snare of the devil, taking captive at his will. Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 1: says one. I have all this love for those I
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  Speaker 1: believe to be children of God, but I will never
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  Speaker 1: believe he is a child of God who belongs to
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  Speaker 1: that vile congregation? Can he do you think be a
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  Speaker 1: child of God who holds such detestable opinions? Or he
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  Speaker 1: that joins in such senseless and superstitious, if not idolatrous worship?
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  Speaker 1: So we may justify ourselves in one sin. By adding
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  Speaker 1: a second to it, we excuse the want of love
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  Speaker 1: in ourselves, by laying the blame on others to color
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: our own devilish temper. We now is our broth and
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  Speaker 1: children of the devil. Oh, be aware of this. If
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  Speaker 1: you are already taking the snare, escape out of it
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  Speaker 1: as soon as possible, Go and learn that truly Catholic love,
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  Speaker 1: which is not rash. Were hasty in judging that love
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  Speaker 1: which thinks no evil, which believes and hopes all things,
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  Speaker 1: which makes all the allowances for others that we desire
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  Speaker 1: others should make for us. Then we shall take knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of the grace of God which is in every man,
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  Speaker 1: whatever be his opinion or mode of worship. Then all
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  Speaker 1: that fear God be near and dear unto us in
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: the bowels of Jesus Christ. Was not this the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of our dear friend? And why should it not be ours? O,
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  Speaker 1: Thou God of Love? How long shall thy people be
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  Speaker 1: a by word among the heathen? How long shall they
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  Speaker 1: laugh us to scorn and say, see how these Christians
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  Speaker 1: love one another? When wilt thou roll away our reproach,
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  Speaker 1: shall the sword devour forever? How long will it be ere,
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  Speaker 1: thou bid thy people return from following each other. Now
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  Speaker 1: at least let all the people stand still and pursue
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  Speaker 1: after their brethren no more. But whatever others do, lit
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  Speaker 1: all of us my brethren, hear the voice of Him that,
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  Speaker 1: being dead yet speaks. Suppose ye hear him say, now,
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  Speaker 1: at least bee followers of me, as I was of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Let brother no more lift up sword against brother. Neither
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  Speaker 1: know ye war any war. Rather put ye on as
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  Speaker 1: the elect of God. Bowels of mercies, humbleness, of mild,
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  Speaker 1: brotherly kindness, gentleness, long suffering, forbearing one another in love.
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  Speaker 1: Let the time pass suffice for strife, envy, contention, for
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  Speaker 1: abiding and devouring one another. Blessed be God, that ye
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  Speaker 1: have not long ago been consumed one of another. From henceforth,
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  Speaker 1: hold ye the unity of the spirit in the bond
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  Speaker 1: of peace. O God, with THEE, no word is impossible.
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  Speaker 1: Thou doest whatsoever please THEE, O, that thou would cause
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  Speaker 1: the mantle of thy prophet, whom thou hast taken up
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  Speaker 1: now to fall upon us, that remain. Where is the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: God of Elijah. Let his spirit rest upon these thy servants.
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  Speaker 1: Show thou art the God that answers by fire. Let
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  Speaker 1: the fire of thy love fall on every heart. And
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  Speaker 1: because we love THEE, let us love one another with
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  Speaker 1: a love stronger than death. Take away from us all
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  Speaker 1: anger and wrath and bitterness, all clamor and evil speaking.
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  Speaker 1: Let thy spirits rest upon us, that from this hour
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  Speaker 1: we may be kind to each other, tender hearted, forgiving
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  Speaker 1: one another, even as God, for Christ's sake hath forgiven
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  Speaker 1: us ahem servant of God. Well done, Thy glorious warfares past,
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  Speaker 1: the battles fought. The race is one, and thou art
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  Speaker 1: crowned at last of all thy heart's desire, triumphantly possessed,
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  Speaker 1: lodged by the ministerial choir in thy Redeemer's breast, in
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  Speaker 1: condescending love, thy ceaseless prayer, he heard and bade THEE
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  Speaker 1: suddenly remove to thy complete reward, ready to bring the peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thy beauteous feet were shod when mercy signed thy soul's
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  Speaker 1: release and caught THEE up to God. With saints enthroned
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  Speaker 1: on high. Thou dost thy Lord proclaim and still to
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  Speaker 1: God's salvation, Cry salvation to the lamb. O, happy, happy soul,
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  Speaker 1: and next to seize of praise, long as eternal ages roll,
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  Speaker 1: thou seest thy Saviour's face redeemed from earth and pain
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  Speaker 1: all when shall we ascend and all in Jesu's presence
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  Speaker 1: reign with our translated friend, Come Lord, and quickly come,
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  Speaker 1: and when in thee complete, receive thy longing servants home
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  Speaker 1: to triumph at thy feet. End of section fifty four.
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  Speaker 1: End of Sermons on several occasions, First series by John
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  Speaker 1: Wesley