Abused and misrepresented both by good and bad, we learned to set small store by the judgment of men, so that when praise and flattery followed we had an antidote for the poisons. If you plead for certain mercies definitely and distinctly, with firm, unstaggering faith, you shall richly succeed. Those who die daily will die easily. I would to God we had learned this lesson. Let us live as dying men among dying men, and then we shall truly live. This will not make us unhappy, for surely no heir of
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