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... judge the world ! II . THE GREAT ACCOUNT . -It ANOTHER train of thought which suggests itself to us in the season of Advent is this : - is the plain and general testimony of Holy Scripture , that at the last awful day every one of us ...
... judge the world ! II . THE GREAT ACCOUNT . -It ANOTHER train of thought which suggests itself to us in the season of Advent is this : - is the plain and general testimony of Holy Scripture , that at the last awful day every one of us ...
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... Judge is to carry conviction to the hearts of those who shall then be judged , they surely must be in possession , at the time , of the full consciousness of each act as having been performed by them , of each word as having been spoken ...
... Judge is to carry conviction to the hearts of those who shall then be judged , they surely must be in possession , at the time , of the full consciousness of each act as having been performed by them , of each word as having been spoken ...
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... Judge ; but where , I ask , would be the conviction in my own breast that the Judge of all the earth had done right ? Unless I could see and feel at that dread moment all the sinfulness of my then acts ; in other words , unless I could ...
... Judge ; but where , I ask , would be the conviction in my own breast that the Judge of all the earth had done right ? Unless I could see and feel at that dread moment all the sinfulness of my then acts ; in other words , unless I could ...
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... Judge will not be in our minds and consciences justified when He shall speak , and clear when He shall judge . And we may well say , What a marvellous condition of our future judgment this is ! How improbable ! most would think ; nay ...
... Judge will not be in our minds and consciences justified when He shall speak , and clear when He shall judge . And we may well say , What a marvellous condition of our future judgment this is ! How improbable ! most would think ; nay ...
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Henry Alford. this is present to me , as well as to my Great Judge , in that day , how is the full justice of my sentence to be comprehended by me ? or , to put the blessed alternative suggested by the bright hopes of every Christian ...
Henry Alford. this is present to me , as well as to my Great Judge , in that day , how is the full justice of my sentence to be comprehended by me ? or , to put the blessed alternative suggested by the bright hopes of every Christian ...
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