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[Assistant] It robs the king of the devoted affection of his subjects and devastates both church and state."


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[Assistant] Thus Rome succeeded in arraying France against the Reformation.


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[Assistant] It was to uphold the throne, preserve the nobles, and maintain the laws that the sword of persecution was first unsheathed in France.


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[Assistant] Little did the rulers of the land foresee the results of that fateful policy. The teaching of the Bible


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[Assistant] would have implanted in the minds and hearts of the people those principles of justice, temperance, truth, equity, and benevolence, which are the very cornerstone of a nation's prosperity. Righteousness exalteth a nation, thereby the throne is established.


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[Assistant] Proverbs 14 verse 34, chapter 16 verse 12.


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[Assistant] We'll honor the king in the exercise of all just and legitimate authority.


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[Assistant] But unhappy France prohibited the Bible and banned its disciples.


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[Assistant] Century after century, men of principle and integrity, men of intellectual acuteness and moral strength,


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[Assistant] Who had the courage to avow their convictions and the faith to suffer for the truth.


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[Assistant] For centuries these men toiled as slaves in the galleys, perished at the stake, or rotted in dungeon cells. Thousands upon thousands found safety in flight.


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[Assistant] And this continued for 250 years after the opening of the Reformation.


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[Assistant] Scarcely was there a generation of Frenchmen during the long period


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[Assistant] The order in which as a rule they preeminently excelled to enrich the lands in which they found an asylum.


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[Assistant] And in proportion as they replenished other countries with these good gifts, did they empty their own of them.


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[Assistant] If all that was now driven away had been retained in France,


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[Assistant] If during these 300 years, the industrial skill of the exiles had been cultivating her soil,


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[Assistant] If during these 300 years their artistic bent had been improving her manufacturers,


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[Assistant] If during these 300 years their creative genius and analytical power had been enriching her literature and cultivating her science, if their wisdom had been guiding her counsels, their bravery fighting her battles,


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[Assistant] They're equity framing her laws and the religion of the Bible strengthening the intellect and governing the conscience of her people.


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[Assistant] What a glory would at this day have encompassed France. What a great, prosperous and happy country. A pattern to the nations which he have been. But a blind and inexorable bigotry.


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[Assistant] Chased from her soil, every teacher of virtue, every champion of order, every honest defender of the throne.


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[Assistant] It said to the men who would have made their country a renown and glory in the earth, choose which you will, a stake or exile. At last the ruin of the state was complete. There remained no more conscience to be prescribed, no more religion to be dragged to the stake, no more patriotism.


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[Assistant] To be chased into banishment. Close quote. Wiley book 13 chapter 20.


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[Assistant] And the revolution, with all its horrors, was the dire result.


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[Assistant] With the flight of the Huguenots a general decline settled upon France.


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[Assistant] Flourishing manufacturing cities fell into decay. Fertile districts returned to their native wildness


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[Assistant] Intellectual dullness and moral declension succeeded a period of unwanted progress. Paris became one vast almshouse.


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[Assistant] And it is estimated that at the breaking out of the revolution,


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[Assistant] Two hundred thousand paupers claimed charity from the hands of the king. The Jesuits alone flourished in the decaying nation.


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[Assistant] And ruled with dreadful tyranny over churches and schools, the prisons and the galleys.


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[Assistant] The gospel would have brought to France the solution of those political and social problems that baffled the skill of her clergy, her king, and her legislators.


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[Assistant] And finally plunged the nation into anarchy and ruin.


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[Assistant] But under the domination of Rome, the people had lost the Savior's blessed lessons of self-sacrifice and unselfish love.


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[Assistant] They had been led away from the practice of self-denial for the good of others.


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[Assistant] The rich had found no rebuke for their oppression of the poor, the poor no help for their servitude and degradation.


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[Assistant] The selfishness of the wealthy and powerful grew more and more apparent and oppressive.


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[Assistant] For centuries, the greed and profligacy of the noble resulted in grinding extortion toward the peasant. The rich wronged the poor and the poor hated the rich.


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[Assistant] In many provinces, the estates were held by the nobles, and the laboring classes were only tenants.


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[Assistant] They were at the mercy of their landlords and were forced to submit to their exorbitant demands.


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[Assistant] The burden of supporting both the church and the state fell upon the middle and lower classes.


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[Assistant] The people were compelled at every turn to consult the exclusive interest of the landlord.


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[Assistant] The lives of the agricultural laborers were lives of incessant work and unrelieved misery. Their complaints, if they ever dared to complain, were treated with insolent contempt. The courts of justice would always listen to a noble as against a peasant. Bribes were notoriously accepted by the judges.


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[Assistant] And the merest caprice of the aristocracy had the force of law by virtue of this system of universal corruption. Of the taxes wrung from the commonality by the secular magnates on the one hand and the clergy on the other, not half ever found its way into the royal or episcopal treasury. The rest was squandered in profligate self-indulgence.


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[Assistant] The men who thus impoverished their fellow subjects were themselves exempt from taxation and entitled by law or custom to all the appointments of the state.


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[Assistant] The privileged classes numbered 150,000.


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[Assistant] And for their gratification, millions were condemned to hopeless and degrading lives.


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[Assistant] The court was given up to luxury and profligacy.


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[Assistant] There was little confidence existing between the people and the rulers.


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[Assistant] Suspicion fastened upon all the measures of the government as designing and selfish.


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[Assistant] For more than half a century before the time of the revolution, the throne was occupied by Louis XV, who even in those evil times


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[Assistant] was distinguished as an indolent frivolous and sensual monarch with a depraved and cruel aristocracy and an impoverished and ignorant lower class.


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[Assistant] The state financially embarrassed and the people exasperated.


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[Assistant] It needed no prophet's eye to foresee a terrible impending outbreak.


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[Assistant] To the warnings of his counselors, the king was accustomed to reply,


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[Assistant] Try to make things go on as long as I am likely to live. After my death, it may be as it will.


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[Assistant] He saw the evils, but had neither the courage nor the power to meet them. The doom awaiting France was but too truly pictured in his indolent and selfish answer. After me, the deluge.


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[Assistant] By working upon the jealousy of the kings and the ruling classes,


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[Assistant] And purposing by this means to fasten both rulers and people in her thrall. With farsighted policy she perceived that in order to enslave men effectually, the shackles must be bound upon their souls, that the surest way to prevent them from escaping their bondage was to render them incapable of freedom.


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[Assistant] A thousand fold more terrible than the physical suffering which resulted from her policy was the moral degradation. Deprived of the Bible,


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[Assistant] And abandon to the teachings of bigotry and selfishness.


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[Assistant] The people were shrouded in ignorance and superstition and sunken in vice so that they were wholly unfitted for self-government.


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[Assistant] But the outworking of all this was widely different from what Rome had purposed.


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[Assistant] Instead of holding the masses in a blind submission to her dogmas, her work resulted in making them infidels and revolutionists.


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[Assistant] Romanism they despised as priestcraft.


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[Assistant] They beheld the clergy as a party to their opposition. The only god they knew was the god of Rome. Her teaching was their only religion.


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[Assistant] They regarded her greed and cruelty as the legitimate fruit of the Bible, and they would have none of it.


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[Assistant] Rome had misrepresented the character of God and perverted his requirements.


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[Assistant] And now men rejected both the Bible and its author. She had required a blind faith in her dogmas under the pretended sanction of the scriptures. In the reaction,


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[Assistant] Voltaire and his associates cast aside God's word altogether and spread everywhere the poison of infidelity.


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[Assistant] Rome had ground down the people under her iron heel, and now the masses degraded and brutalized.


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[Assistant] In their recoil from her tyranny cast off all restraint.


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[Assistant] Enraged at the glittering cheat to which they had so long paid homage, they rejected truth and falsehood together, and mistaking license for liberty, the slaves of vice exalted in their imagined freedom. At the opening of the revolution, by a concession of the king,


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[Assistant] The people were granted a representation exceeding that of the nobles and the clergy combined. Thus the balance of power was in their hands.


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[Assistant] Whose minds were filled with bitter and long treasured memories of wrong.


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[Assistant] Resolve to revolutionize the state of misery that had grown unbearable


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[Assistant] The oppressed wrought out the lesson they had learned under tyranny and became the oppressors of those who had oppressed them.


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[Assistant] Unhappy France reaped in blood the harvest she had sown.


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[Assistant] Terrible were the results of her submission to the controlling power of Rome.


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[Assistant] Where France, under the influence of Romanism, had set up the first stake at the opening of the Reformation, there the revolution set up its first guillotine.


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[Assistant] On the very spot where the first martyrs to the Protestant faith were burned in the 16th century,


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[Assistant] It was found that the laws of men were inadequate to hold in check the powerful tides of human passion.


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[Assistant] And the nation swept on to revolt and anarchy.


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[Assistant] The war against the Bible inaugurated an era which stands in the world's history as the Reign of Terror.


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[Assistant] Peace and happiness were banished from the homes and hearts of men. No one was secure.


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[Assistant] He who triumphed today was suspected condemned tomorrow.


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[Assistant] Violence and lust held undisputed sway.


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[Assistant] King, clergy and nobles were compelled to submit to the atrocities of an excited and maddened people. Their thirst for vengeance was only stimulated by the execution of the king,


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[Assistant] And those who had decreed his death soon followed him to the scaffold


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[Assistant] At one time containing more than 200,000 captives. The cities of the kingdom were filled with scenes of horror.


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[Assistant] One party of revolutionists was against another party.


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[Assistant] The armies were clamoring for arrears of pay. The Parisians were starving.


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[Assistant] The provinces were laid waste by brigands and civilization was almost extinguished in anarchy and license.


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[Assistant] All too well the people had learned the lessons of cruelty and torture which Rome had so diligently taught. A day of retribution at last had come.


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[Assistant] It was not now the disciples of Jesus that were thrust into dungeons and dragged to the stake.


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[Assistant] Long ago, these had perished or been driven into exile. Unsparing Rome now felt the deadly power.


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[Assistant] Which the clergy of France had exhibited for so many ages was now retorted upon them with signal vigor. The scaffolds ran red with the blood of the priests. The galleys in the prisons, once crowded with Huguenots, were now filled with their persecutors. Chained to the bench and toiling at the oar,


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[Assistant] The Roman Catholic clergy experienced all those woes which their church had so freely inflicted on the gentle heretics.


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[Assistant] then came those days when the most barbarous of all codes was administered by the most barbarous of all tribunals when no man could greet his neighbors


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[Assistant] When the guillotine was long and hard at work every morning. When the jails were filled as close as the holds of a slave ship.


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[Assistant] In an extravagance of cruelty unknown even in the capital.


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[Assistant] The knife of the deadly machine rose and fell too slow for their work of slaughter.


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[Assistant] Long rows of captives were mowed down with grapeshots.


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[Assistant] holes were made in the bottom of crowded barges. Lyon was turned into a desert.


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[Assistant] Feasted on naked corpses Twined together in hideous embraces No mercy was shown to sex or age


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[Assistant] The number of young lads and of girls of 17 who were murdered by that execrable government is to be reckoned by hundreds. Babies torn from the breast were tossed from pike to pike along the Jacobin ranks.


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[Assistant] In the short space of ten years, multitudes of human beings perished. All this was as Satan would have it. This was what, for ages, he had been working to secure. His policy is deception from first to last, and his steadfast purpose is to bring woe and wretchedness upon men, to deface and defile the workmanship of God, to mar the divine purposes of benevolence and love,


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[Assistant] Then, by his deceptive arts, he blinds the minds of men and leads them to throw back the blame of his work upon God.


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[Assistant] As if all this misery were the result of the creator's plan. In like manner.


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[Assistant] When those who have been degraded and brutalized through his cruel power achieve their freedom.


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[Assistant] He urges them onto excesses and atrocities.


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[Assistant] Then this picture of unbridled license is pointed out by tyrants and oppressors as an illustration of the result of liberty.


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[Assistant] When error in one garb has been detected, Satan only masks it in a different disguise, and multitudes receive it as eagerly as at the first. When the people found Romanism to be a deception,


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[Assistant] And he could not, through this agency, lead them to transgression of God's law?


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[Assistant] He urged them to regard all religion as a cheat, and the Bible as a fable, and casting aside the divine statutes, they gave themselves up to unbridled iniquity.


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[Assistant] The fatal error which wrought such woe for the inhabitants of France was the ignoring of this one great truth.


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[Assistant] That true freedom lies within the prescriptions of the law of God.


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[Assistant] Oh that thou hadst hearken to my commandments, then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea. There is no peace, saith the Lord unto the wicked, but whoso hearkeneth unto me


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[Assistant] Atheists, infidels and apostates oppose and denounce God's law, but the results of their influence prove that the well-being of man is bound up with his obedience of the divine statutes.


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[Assistant] Those who will not read the lesson from the book of God are bidden to read it in the history of nations.


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[Assistant] When Satan wrought through the Roman church to lead men away from obedience, his agency was concealed, and his work was so disguised that the degradation and misery which resulted were not seen to be the fruit of transgression.


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[Assistant] And his power was so far counteracted by the working of the Spirit of God that his purposes were prevented from reaching their full fruition. The people did not trace the effect to its cause and discover the source of their miseries. But in the revolution,


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[Assistant] The law of God was openly set aside by the National Council and in the reign of terror which followed, the working of cause and effect could be seen by all.


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[Assistant] When France publicly rejected God and set aside the Bible.


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[Assistant] Wicked men and spirits of darkness exalted in their attainment of the object so long desired.


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[Assistant] A kingdom free from the restraints of the law of God.


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[Assistant] But the transgression of a just and righteous law must inevitably result in misery and ruin, though not visited at once with judgments.


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[Assistant] The wickedness of men was nevertheless surely working out their doom.


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[Assistant] Centuries of apostasy and crime had been treasuring up wrath against the day of retribution.


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[Assistant] And when their iniquity was full, the despisers of God learned too late that it is a fearful thing to have worn out the divine patience.


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[Assistant] The restraining spirit of God which imposes a check upon the cruel power of Satan was in a great measure removed.


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[Assistant] We're left to reap its fruits until the land was filled with crimes too horrible for pen to trace. From devastated provinces and ruined cities, a terrible cry was heard, a cry of bitterest anguish.


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[Assistant] Social order, the family, the state, and the church.


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[Assistant] The wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.


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[Assistant] Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him.


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[Assistant] They hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord.


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[Assistant] God's faithful witnesses, slain by blasphemous power that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit, were not long to remain silent.


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[Assistant] After three days and a half, the Spirit of Life from God entered into them and they stood upon their feet.


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[Assistant] The world stood aghast at the enormity of guilt.


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[Assistant] Which had resulted from a rejection of the sacred oracles, and men recognized the necessity of faith in God and his word as the foundation of virtue and morality. Sayeth the Lord, Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed?


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[Assistant] And against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high?


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[Assistant] Even against the Holy One of Israel. Isaiah 37 verse 23.


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[Assistant] Therefore behold, I will cause them to know this once will I cause them to know my hand and my might.


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[Assistant] And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither.


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[Assistant] Since France made war upon God's two witnesses, they have been honored as never before.


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[Assistant] In 1804, the British and Foreign Bible Society was organized.


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[Assistant] This was followed by similar organizations with numerous branches upon the continent of Europe.


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[Assistant] The Bible had been printed and circulated in 50 tongues.


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[Assistant] And there were but few churches that made any effort for the spread of Christianity in heathen lands. But toward the close of the 18th century, a great change took place.


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[Assistant] Men became dissatisfied with the results of rationalism and realized the necessity of divine revelation and experimental religion.


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[Assistant] From this time the work of foreign missions attained an unprecedented growth. The improvements in printing have given an impetus to the work of circulating the Bible.


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[Assistant] The increased facilities for communication between different countries.


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[Assistant] The breaking down of ancient barriers of prejudice and national exclusiveness.


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[Assistant] And the loss of secular power by the pontiff of Rome have opened the way for the entrance of the word of God.


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[Assistant] For some years the Bible has been sold without restraint in the streets of Rome and it has now been carried to every part of the habitable globe. The infidel Voltaire once boastingly said, I am weary of hearing people repeat


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[Assistant] That twelve men established the Christian religion.


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[Assistant] I will prove that one man may suffice to overthrow it. Generations have passed since his death. Millions have joined in the war upon the Bible. But it is so far from being destroyed


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[Assistant] That where there were a hundred in Voltaire's time, there are now ten thousand, yes a hundred thousand copies of the book of God.


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[Assistant] In the words of an early reformer concerning the Christian church.


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[Assistant] The Bible is an anvil that has worn out many hammers.


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[Assistant] Sayeth the Lord, No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper.


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[Assistant] They stand fast forever and ever and are done in truth and uprightness. Isaiah 40 verse 8, Psalm 111 verses 7 and 8.


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[Assistant] Whatever is built upon the authority of man will be overthrown.


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[Assistant] But that which is founded upon the rock of God's immutable word shall stand forever.


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[Assistant] The silence total but for the sound of the wolves' heartbeats, their breathing. Their thoughts must have been loud too. Edward was first to move again, speaking in response to what he heard in Sam's head. Yes, things are that dangerous. Enough that you would abandon your family? Sam asked out loud, censure in his tone.


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[Assistant] But I could see the shape of pain in the hard planes of his face. We don't know what she saw, Edward said. Alice is neither unfeeling nor a coward. She just has more information than we do. We would not, Sam began. You are bound differently than we are, Edward snapped. We each still have our free will. Sam's chin jerked up and his eyes looked suddenly flat black.


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[Assistant] But you should heed the warning, Edward went on. This is not something you want to involve yourselves in. You can still avoid what Alice saw. Sam smiled grimly. We don't run away. Behind him, Paul snorted. Don't get your family slaughtered for pride, Carlisle interjected quietly. Sam looked at Carlisle with a softer expression. As Edward pointed out,


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[Assistant] Renesmee is as much a part of our family now as she is yours. Jacob cannot abandon her and we cannot abandon him. His eyes flickered to Alice's note and his lips pressed into a thin line. You don't know her, Edward said. Do you? Sam asked bluntly. Carlisle put a hand on Edward's shoulder. We have much to do, son. Whatever Alice's decision, we would be foolish not to follow her advice now.


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[Assistant] Behind me, I could hear Esme's quiet, tearless sobs. I didn't know how to cry in this body. I couldn't do anything but stare. There was no feeling yet. Everything seemed unreal, like I was dreaming again after all these months, having a nightmare. Thank you, Sam, Carlisle said. I'm sorry, Sam answered. We shouldn't have let her through. You did the right thing, Carlisle told him.


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[Assistant] Alice is free to do what she will. I wouldn't deny her that liberty. I'd always thought of the Cullens as a whole, an indivisible unit. Suddenly, I remembered that it had not always been so. Carlisle had created Edward, Esme, Rosalie, and Emmett. Edward had created me. We were physically linked by blood and venom. I never thought of Alice and Jasper as separate, as adopted into the family. But in truth,


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[Assistant] Alice had adopted the Collins. She had shown up with her unconnected past, bringing Jasper with his and fit herself into the family that was already there.


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[Assistant] I'm not going down without a fight, Emmet snarled low under his breath.


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[Assistant] I talked to Robert Smith, his shot is set up and everything, he'll be back in half an hour. He's good to go then. But he's good to go and he did say he heard Steve Currant hooking up your Mike J and he goes, man.


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[Assistant] Alright, so let's do top five guys. Today's top five in honor of having Robert Smith, a Buckeye and Leroy Hoyt of Michigan player. The five best Michigan Ohio State games of all time. In football. I sure hope 2013 made the list. In football. So let's start with number five.


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[Assistant] 1996, Michigan beat Ohio State 13-9. They were down 9-0 at halftime. Brian Greasey came off the bench. Leeds that come back 2 late field goals.


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[Assistant] Let's keep moving. Let's go back to 1975. Ohio State beat Michigan in the top 5 matchup. 21-14. The name Pete Johnson ring a bell?


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[Assistant] It's 2016, a much happier memory for Buckeye fans. This one early in the Jim Harbaugh era is the classic winner to the Big Ten Championship. Came down to a few inches, but Ohio State ended up sealing the win.


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[Assistant] One versus two. Two thousand and forty-one thirty-nine. Troy Smith. Take it, Steve. Punch it. Great game. There you go. It was for a spot in the BCS championship. It is in my opinion, my researched opinion.


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[Assistant] The game, everything on the line, the two head coaches, Ohio State was down, came back.


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[Assistant] 2013 was in the researched category, but I didn't think, I didn't think it was. Sorry, Todd.


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[Assistant] Before we get into the Lindor trade, just check out some of these numbers we're going to run through with Klasay from yesterday. These are his pitches yesterday. He only threw 10 pitches. The slowest pitch was 97.8 miles per hour and he punched directly to the next one. That puts him in some elite category. The only other person to strike out three players in an all-star game on 10 pitches or less, Jacob DeGrom. And DeGrom threw fastballs. You ever heard of him?


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[Assistant] So there's nothing to digest or discuss from that. There are very limited games going on today. Very, very limited.


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[Assistant] What you working with? That's my bird man, I keep my, you know, I'm a, I'm a, what you call a marketing guru, so I only wear my own stuff.


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[Assistant] Oh you have, you have a line? Yea. I did not know. Yea. How much do they retail? Well I don't sell them, I get them specially made just for me.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I never take birthdays.


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[Assistant] And I try not to live my life waiting on a day to celebrate, so, and I know life is priceless, so I try to live every day like it's a birthday.


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[Assistant] So I've been knowing teach for a long time, uhm, way back like 17, 18 years and uhm,


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[Assistant] Love from them. Uhm, I think Miss E, Miss Evelyn, she's an angel. She did a great job with all her girls. For me, just growing up in the streets, not having the word love, it was hard for me to accept them.


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[Assistant] It happens. I really took life like uhm,


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[Assistant] It was more about my business than love. I didn't care about none of that after I lost.


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[Assistant] Uhm, my son LeBron, which I really didn't want to rush my children into the business because I knew they was born in this business at some point in like all the hard work that we did.


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[Assistant] If he wanted it or not, he borned in it, so he got to live with it and accept it. So, I just, my, my brother Slim spent a lot of time with my son.


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[Assistant] And I just wanted to make sure he was prepared for when he come into this business. I won't show him all, all the fakes, the shocks, everything that come with this game, even if he don't want to be in it, because he gonna inherit all our hard work at some point in life, so.


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[Assistant] She's my joy and my pain. I give my soul and my every piece of me to my girl.


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[Assistant] It's a lot of moving parts for me and Wayne, and uhm, it's important to me that I fix that. I will fix that, uhm.


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[Assistant] Uhm, a friend of mine has introduced me to Wayne, so when I first met him, he became like my son. Like, you know, in New Orleans, we don't have fathers a lot, a lot of...


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[Assistant] True, uhm, in a minute it all gonna self-explain itself and I ain't come here to explain that. I just came here to be a part of your show and...


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[Assistant] Well, I can't speak for Nikki, you know. Uhm, she got her own philosophy, but I do know she in the studio a lot, and she working real hard, and I think, personally, she's the most talented female ever in hip-hop history. If nobody had done what she done, I'd do what she did.


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[Assistant] Right, it's a three part. This part one, it's about the beginning of Cash Money on how I grew up just being raised in the projects with our parents.


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[Assistant] Uh, lost as a kid. Who raised you then? The streets.


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[Assistant] I was in boys homes as a kid for three, four years, lined up every day, could be took to any family. My father was fortunate enough to get me back and then he passed after that. So uhm.


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[Assistant] Well, there's always the reward, of course. Thousand dollars, dead or alive.


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[Assistant] I uhm, I'd ask you to light and eat, but I think you better keep going. And straight south, huh?


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[Assistant] This country's full of men just aiming to shoot you on sight and find out about the mistake later. Now you get out of here while you still can.


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[Assistant] By this time tomorrow night, the posse will be riding down after him fifty miles from here. And the whole north will be wide open for you. Now, is there anything wrong about that?


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[Assistant] He's just a common, ordinary, useless, Bronx thumper. Like you could see any which way you looked around here. And he's done anything I asked him to.


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[Assistant] But it ain't wireless now. He's mean. Playing downright mean. He's getting meaner all the time.


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[Assistant] Well, you see, I... I've known Monty Jarrett ever since we was kids. We grew up together. And so when he rode in hurt, I tried to help him, that's all.


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[Assistant] No. No, they'll catch him now I guess. But possibly pound him back by this evening.


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[Assistant] I decided to tell you the truth, the whole truth, and see if you'd help me. I mean, like, take your saddle, maybe, or anything to lead the posse away. There just wasn't nobody else I could turn to.


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[Assistant] I, uh, I'm, I'm awful grateful to you. Ain't there something I could do for you maybe?


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[Assistant] I don't know who you are. I only know who you say you are, and why should I take your word for that?


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[Assistant] If that money popped up here, they'd close in on this country so tight a jackrabbit couldn't get out. You gotta wait till he gets away.


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[Assistant] Because people believe the maid service was any good if they saw how small I was. They think they've been short-changed.


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[Assistant] I say yes. But how is she like that so very much? It makes everything between us so properly dignified, doesn't it?


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[Assistant] Give that back to me! He writes everything down, sir! That's your mouth! He keeps a list of all the able-doings he's done. I've seen it all. Through my keyhole.


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[Assistant] Oh, poo poo. I never felt better. Mere fancy. Now, I've been thinking. Your mother's a widow, is she not?


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[Assistant] A nice wage in return for a little like dusting and washing. What do you say to that? See an objection?


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[Assistant] Nothing here. All is perfectly satisfactory.


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[Assistant] Alas, with disdain at these very matters concerning kicknubbles, as if he had nothing to do with it, whereas in fact, he was the first to propose it.


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[Assistant] No thanks, I'll keep it. Then you won't be bothered.


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[Assistant] Special news flash. Be on the lookout for a 12 year old boy who ran away from the Golden State Orphanage.


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[Assistant] He is about four feet nine in height, has curly brown hair, hazel eyes, wore a maroon sweater and blue overalls when last seen.


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[Assistant] By the way, Brad called up this morning. I say Brad called up this morning.


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[Assistant] I'm not picking on you. What's the matter with you lately? You're on edge jumping.


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[Assistant] Besides, I think it's a father's own business what he feeds his kid. Now look here.


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[Assistant] You want him alone to take care of the boy. That's why you brought Tommy to San Francisco. Now why don't you leave him alone? Or are you falling for it?


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[Assistant] I know, I know, I know. But uniforms have got people in trouble before this.


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[Assistant] Hiya, Chief. Oh, what happened to Howard?


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[Assistant] Well, I'm from headquarters. We got a complaint and there's a sailor mixed up in it. So I thought I'd check with you.


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[Assistant] Well, someone called in and said a sailor was keeping a kid locked in a room. Up at the mission apartments. Probably nothing to it, but you know how it is.


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[Assistant] Chief Petty Officer Malone locked me in a warehouse and got away with a kid, having picked up and taken to the shore patrol office. Right.


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[Assistant] Hello. Yes, I was calling Los Angeles. Uh, hello. Is this the Golden State Orphanage?


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[Assistant] This is Sergeant Terflarity, San Francisco Police. We've got a boy up here who ran away from your orphanage.


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[Assistant] Yes, yes, that's him. Well, sure he's all right. We'll have a police matron bring him back tomorrow.


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[Assistant] I thought he was dead. And he lives like five miles away from me.


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[Assistant] I thought he was amazing. Why is this guy left behind?


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[Assistant] Losing his wife's work, I don't know how he didn't have a mental breakdown.


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[Assistant] Julian, great. Hi guys. Hey, how you doing, Julian? Great to see you again. I know there's going to be a bit of a delay, uh, like in your life. Uh, but you're back in the news, of course, because WikiLeaks, uh, released thousands and thousands of emails from the Democratic


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[Assistant] National Committee, right before the Democratic Convention. And you, of course, in the past have released lots of documents from governments, but


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[Assistant] People questioned whether this was fair game because the Democratic National Committee is not a government, it's private, and some of the donors had their social security numbers and credit card numbers released. Do you think this is fair game?


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[Assistant] Well, I don't know if that's really true. I mean, I read those emails. There was no smoking guy.


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[Assistant] Why haven't we seen anything hacked from the Trump campaign? I mean, obviously we know these came from Russia, and we also know that you do not like Hillary Clinton at all, as does not Vladimir Putin. So it looks like you are working with a bad actor, Russia.


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[Assistant] To put your thumb on the scale and basically fuck with the one person who stands in the way of us being ruled by Donald Trump.


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[Assistant] I, I, I gave Obama a million dollars. I made it public. I, the whole point of it was to make it public so that people in 2012 would understand that the game had moved to the million dollar level after our Citizens United ruling. I wasn't trying to hide it. I was trying to publicize it. I don't know what the point is.


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[Assistant] First of all, it wasn't a plot. Somebody mentioned it and nobody did anything about it. Let's move on to the other part.


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[Assistant] Alright, so why don't you, why don't you hack into Donald Trump's tax returns?


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[Assistant] I mean, it's interesting because Edward Snowden criticized you. I mean, his tweet was,


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[Assistant] Well, we could go all night arguing about that, but we don't have time. I would just say in response to what you said about Mr. Snowden, I know you can get into everybody's computer. I don't know if you can get into Edward Snowden's mind.


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[Assistant] But nevertheless, I'm with you brother. You seem like you're in a better state of mind than the last time I talked to you, and I hope you get out soon. Thank you very much.


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[Assistant] Please. What are you doing here?


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[Assistant] Mind your manners, boy, and your tongue. You're not wanted here. Now go.


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[Assistant] But the infamy of the betrayal and slaughter of 27 boys must never be forgotten.


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[Assistant] Who pointed to your silent tents and whispered, Give me my thirty pieces of silver. Now go and destroy them.


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[Assistant] Bowdoin's annual masquerade party? Yeaah. Once a year, people dress up as heroes.


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[Assistant] I was in it for only 24 hours. That isn't very long, is it? You ordered me back.


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[Assistant] But how did I justify the pleasure? You said the books needed checking. Books? I wouldn't let you tamper with my library, Benjamin, would I? Cash books. Stock books. Books. Oh, but why today? I don't know.


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[Assistant] I'd have liked to have stayed on in Mobile. I had some business. But I brought you back to look at store books. Now why did I do that? I must have had some reason.


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[Assistant] I thought he was so fond of it. He's fond of the whole family. Especially my sister. But unfortunately, she's not very interested.


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[Assistant] It's confederate day, Papa. Mama never eats salt on confederate day. Thank you, Oscar. If you insist on acting crazy, that's your privilege. But I want salt on my table today and every day.


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[Assistant] Set that police down, Jake. It's not seemly for a man to load his goods on other men, Benjamin. Slave all free.


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[Assistant] That reminds me, Regina. I met Harz Giddens at Mobile last evening.


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[Assistant] He was mighty disappointed you hadn't answered his letter about coming up here for another visit. I invite him to pop his music even tomorrow night.


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[Assistant] You're 20 years old, honey. You ought to be settling down. You've been worrying us.


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[Assistant] Oscar's right. Isn't that so, Mom? What's this all about, Regina?


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[Assistant] Stop crying over your food, Lavinia. If you wanted to remain unsalted.


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[Assistant] Inform Horace Giddens that your sister does not wish to see him here tomorrow. Spend which profit your time today going over the store books. I'll bring my Aristotle. You'll read in English. I'll follow you in Greek.


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[Assistant] And I'll think many things. Like how you used to be a beauty. But at 40, your face got worn and sour. Papa'll still be around. And he'll interrupt us the way he does now. And call for you to come and put him to bed. And you'll get up and go. Wondering how the years went by. Because he's most devoted to you. And he's gonna keep you right here with him. All his long life.


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[Assistant] What is it Oscar? Have you come to borrow a book?


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[Assistant] Time outside the store, if you want the laziest man in town.


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[Assistant] Yes sir. I mean, well. Has, uh, Taylor given the money to the bag trees already? I don't think so, Papa. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Go on about your business. Let Ben take care of the store this afternoon.


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[Assistant] When you see Taylor, try to remember that though ignorance becomes a southern gentleman, cowardice does not. Yes, sir.


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[Assistant] As nice and gentle as he can be. And he'll tell you that you're going to Chicago with Regina.


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[Assistant] If somebody were to tell a doctor that a person was acting funny, was frightened all the time, had crying spells for no reason, strange quirks like not using salt on certain days,


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[Assistant] Mobile. You'd rather stay where you can be near Horace Gims. That's what you mean, innit?


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[Assistant] Go to Ms. Mercer's in the morning and order yourself a new dress. Tell her I said so.


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[Assistant] Good enough for Borden, but not for a big city. You're going to Chicago, Lavinia, with Regina.


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[Assistant] I'm sending Regina to Chicago. You'll be going with her. Good night, Lavinia.


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[Assistant] Coley. Thank you, no. Last night- People like you don't drink coffee with people like me. I've had my coffee. Now, Mr. Huffington- Then come again when you haven't had it.


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[Assistant] Mr. Hubbard, there's dangerous feeling in the community this morning. I've come to talk to you for your own good.


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[Assistant] Eight people identified one of the Knight Riders, as your son asked.


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[Assistant] You know very well there's not a man in these parts who wouldn't enjoy swinging up a hobbit.


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[Assistant] Are you willing to go against eight people who recognized your brother? Well, Oscar looks like anybody. Here, count out $500 for Colonel Asham. Go away, Oscar. Yes, sir. Please use the money for the waiter. Tell him that my other son, Benjamin, wishes to make amends. Ben has the most charitable nature. We'll take care of him, Hobbit. You won't take care of him because you can't. Learn to be poor, Asham. It has more dignity.


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[Assistant] There's no need for so much. A hundred would be more proper. Don't give me lectures on propriety. Good day, Mr. Hubbard. When you see Taylor? Mr. Taylor left and he's not coming back. Then when you write to him, Colonel?


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[Assistant] Here after five dollars will go to repay me for the five hundred. You'll draw eleven. What five hundred? The five hundred I gave to Isham, who so graciously saved you from a rope.


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[Assistant] Stop buying an Oscar. Only take you a hundred weeks to make it up.


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[Assistant] A southern gentleman should ignore danger. What else? Why, I don't know. That's all.


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[Assistant] If I'm not interrupted, I will be. Just wanted to tell you, I invited Miss Bagtree and Captain Bagtree to your concert. The Bagtree's? Thought you'd enjoy having a quality folk here. Come to beg a favor of him.


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[Assistant] She wants us to lend her money on the cotton. With lion net as collateral? Of course her mama don't know and mustn't find out.


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[Assistant] What kind of nonsense is that? The girl don't own the place. Maybe it's not nonsense. Take a note from her.


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[Assistant] When a mama dies, she'll be the one who- You're very concerned with people dying, aren't you? Forgive me. I keep forgetting how that word disturbs you. It's the thing you've been waiting for. The backtree's coming to you for a loan. I'll wait some more. Till Miss Backtree comes herself. Hmm? A loan would make them happy, make us money.


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[Assistant] Judgment of music like the inspiration for it must come slow and measured if it comes with truth. Would you like to try it? By all means. Now where did I leave my cello? You're the only man I've ever met who can mislay a cello. Look beside you.


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[Assistant] Isn't that too bad? Your own brother. It's a shame. Of course, he is of the lower class.


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[Assistant] Well, some people are democrats by choice, some by necessity, you by necessity.


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[Assistant] What do you want me to do, shoot him? Too old to run down streets after men in love?


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[Assistant] Miss Cincy pleases me. Her uncle played


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[Assistant] Perhaps you'd advise us, Captain Bakshi. My daughter and I are planning a trip abroad.


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[Assistant] People usually remember what made them happy, isn't that true? Never thought much about it, sir. Well, let's think about it now. What is it stays in your memory, Captain Bantry? Anything at all?


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[Assistant] I'm most sorry. I speak the truth whenever I can.


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[Assistant] I'm in your house, sir, and you've forced me into this kind of talk. Well, I disapprove of you. Your people deserve to lose their war. And their world. It was a backward world, getting in the way of history. Appall him if you still don't realize it.


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[Assistant] Tell me why you stayed out here with that man. Why you called him John.


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[Assistant] This may sound very rude, but I have a nervous dislike of being grabbed.


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[Assistant] Oski is a liar. Always has been. And he steals a little. Nothing much.


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[Assistant] Not enough to be respectable. That's not true. It's just not true. If you want him, Miss Loretta, do have him.


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[Assistant] Oscar, take this girl out of here. And then come back, quickly.


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[Assistant] At nine years old, I was carrying water for two bits a week.


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[Assistant] I took the first doll I ever had and went to the pay-in library to buy a car. When I was 12, I was working out in the fields. And that same year, I taught myself Latin and French.


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[Assistant] At fourteen, I was driving mules all day and most of the night. But that was the year I learned my Greek, read my classics, taught myself.


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[Assistant] If you want to go away with this can-can girl, what's detaining you? Your permission, sir. Mark sense. You mean money?


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[Assistant] There'll be one thousand dollars for you on that table by six in the morning. Get on the early train. Send a Christmas card each year to an aging parent who now wishes you to stop talking.


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[Assistant] I don't know. Maybe I should come with you.


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[Assistant] As long as I live. Ben! Pack your things and go. And be sure you go far. Get yourself a modest job. Because wherever you are, I'll see to it that you never get anything better.


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[Assistant] A man who wants nothing but war, any war, just a war. A man who believes in nothing, and never will.


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[Assistant] It isn't easy to live with you, Lavinia. It really isn't.


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[Assistant] Don't look back, or you'll turn into a pillar of salt, and he'll sell you. Eight dollars a pound.


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[Assistant] Didn't the Sentinel stop you? Lavinia! Come upstairs!


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[Assistant] I don't know why I'm standing here listening to this foolishness. I'll tell you why you're standing there. Because you're very, very, as Mama just said, afraid. What you to be afraid of, Benjamin?


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[Assistant] How did the Greeks bury fathers who were murdered? Tell me and I'll see to it.


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[Assistant] I know you're a religious woman and religious people don't lie, but you're subject to dreams.


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[Assistant] You've been acting strange for years, Navinia. You know that. And I'm sure that if I were to take you to a doctor... You won't have the time, Papa.


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[Assistant] Tell you the truth, I'm trying to think of some way out. A way out? I consider you a lucky man as it is. You will die in bed. You will give me enough for a clean bed.


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[Assistant] I dare say one could make some small bargains with you still. But I don't like small bargains. And I don't like small talk.


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[Assistant] Where would you prefer me to have breakfast? Tray in my room? Here on the port?


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[Assistant] And you, early, mature and flower, you go any place you want and see what it's like to be without Papa's money. Or you can both stay.


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[Assistant] Papa here was the only person who didn't know about you and the Brazilian general. Papa and Horace Giddens. Oscar, get me some ink and paper. I have a job for you. You don't have to get married just because he tells you to. I'm your father. I'll provide for you.


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[Assistant] I'm glad to hear that. Because from now on, you and I are going to see a lot of each other.


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[Assistant] What you're trying to tell me, Mr. Curtis, is that Reynolds and Oliver were murdered in a direct attempt to secure information on our 311 formula.


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[Assistant] Undoubtedly, Smith could put it together. You see, Smith is, uh, or was working on one part of the formula. We want another here.


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[Assistant] Those two parts plus an ingredient of which this bottle is a sample, properly combined, would make 311.


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[Assistant] He was playing with 6th graders. I put him in, I told him, look, just pass the ball, don't shoot. Next thing you know, he's making a pass, but the ball goes in.


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[Assistant] I-I knew you were gonna be good, but you're making it look so easy.


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[Assistant] He was a control tower through whom you ran both your offense and your defense. There's never been anybody quite like him.


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[Assistant] They used Walton as their comic foil and he loved it.


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[Assistant] The natural ham, uh, as it turns out, who knew? It's an astonishing metamorphosis.


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[Assistant] I think he's the most significant basketball player who's ever laced up his sneakers. Bill Walton influenced the game at both ends of the floor at a higher degree than any player who's ever lived.


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[Assistant] The truth is, Mr. Benjamin, we can't pay or support our people. We can't.


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[Assistant] Oh no, no, right here in Bowdoin. I, I've never been abroad, but John has. He made the grand tour, you know.


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[Assistant] Not yet, John. We can't. Don't have words with him, please.


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[Assistant] Go Green Team! You know, and, uh, we would just all laugh, and, you know, it's gonna mean we're gonna kill the Green Team today.


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[Assistant] And then he'd play well and we'd all, you know, we'd run down the car and we'd yell, flashback. And he'd go, absolutely. We'd always say, he thinks


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[Assistant] Like a week long party, I'd call him up and he'd answer the phone.


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[Assistant] I miss basketball a lot. I miss the competition. What do you miss the most?


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[Assistant] How could he be? On that stinkin' slave salary you payin'? That's how come you're sure to repent and help us, Oscar says.


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[Assistant] Chapter 14. Later English Reformers.


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[Assistant] While Luther was opening a closed Bible to the people of Germany.


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[Assistant] Tyndale was impelled by the Spirit of God to do the same for England.


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[Assistant] Wycliffe's Bible had been translated from the Latin text, which contained many errors. It had never been printed.


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[Assistant] And the cost of manuscript copies was so great.


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[Assistant] That few but wealthy men or nobles could procure it. And furthermore, being strictly prescribed by the church, it had had a comparatively narrow circulation.


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[Assistant] In 1516, a year before the appearance of Luther's thesis,


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[Assistant] Erasmus had published his Greek and Latin version of the New Testament.


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[Assistant] Now for the first time the word of God was printed in the original tongue. In this work, many errors of former versions were corrected, and the sense was more clearly rendered.


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[Assistant] It led many among the educated classes to a better knowledge of the truth.


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[Assistant] And gave a new impetus to the work of reform.


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[Assistant] But the common people were still, to a great extent, debarred from God's Word. Tyndale was to complete the work of Wycliffe in giving the Bible to his countrymen. A diligent student and an earnest seeker for truth.


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[Assistant] He had received the gospel from the Greek testament of Erasmus. He fearlessly preached his convictions


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[Assistant] Urging that all doctrines be tested by the scriptures.


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[Assistant] Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in His Word. Far from having given us the Scriptures, it is you who have hidden them from us.


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[Assistant] It is you who burned those who teach them.


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[Assistant] And if you could, you would burn the scriptures themselves. Close quote.


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[Assistant] Dabignet, History of the Reformation of the 16th Century, Book 18, Chapter 4.


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[Assistant] Tyndale's preaching excited great interest. Many accepted the truth.


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[Assistant] But the priests were on the alert and no sooner had he left the field.


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[Assistant] Then they, by their threats and misrepresentations, Endeavored to destroy his work. Too often they succeeded. What is to be done? he exclaimed.


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[Assistant] While I am sowing in one place, the enemy ravages the field I have just left. I cannot be everywhere.


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[Assistant] Oh, if Christians possess the Holy Scriptures in their own tongue, they could of themselves withstand these sophists. Without the Bible,


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[Assistant] That the Psalms were sung in the Temple of Jehovah.


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[Assistant] And shall not the gospel speak the language of England among us? Ought the church to have less light at noonday than at the dawn?


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[Assistant] Christians must read the New Testament in their mother tongue."


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[Assistant] The doctors and teachers of the church disagreed among themselves. Only by the Bible could men arrive at the truth.


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[Assistant] Now each of these authors contradicts the other.


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[Assistant] It was not long after that a learned Catholic doctor engaging in controversy with him exclaimed


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[Assistant] Anderson, Annals of the English Bible, page 19.


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[Assistant] The purpose which he had begun to cherish of giving the people the New Testament scriptures in their own language was now confirmed and he immediately applied himself to the work. Driven from his home by persecution,


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[Assistant] He went to London and there for a time pursued his labors undisturbed. But again the violence of the Papists forced him to flee. All England seemed closed against him, and he resolved to seek shelter in Germany. Here he began the printing of the English New Testament. Twice the work was stopped, but when forbidden to print in one city, he went to another. At last he made his way to Worms where,


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[Assistant] A few years before, Luther had defended the gospel before the Diet. In that ancient city were many friends of the Reformation, and Tyndale there prosecuted his work without further hindrance. Three thousand copies of the New Testament were soon finished, and another edition followed in the same year.


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[Assistant] With great earnestness and perseverance, he continued his labors.


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[Assistant] Notwithstanding the English authorities had guarded their ports with the strictest vigilance, the word of God was in various ways secretly conveyed to London and then circulated throughout the country. The papists attempted to suppress the truth, but in vain. The Bishop of Durham


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[Assistant] The money thus furnished purchased material for a new and better edition which, but for this, could not have been published. When Tyndale was afterward made a prisoner, his liberty was offered him on condition


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[Assistant] For by paying a large price for the books left on hand,


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[Assistant] He had enabled him to go on with good courage.


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[Assistant] Tyndale was betrayed into the hands of his enemies and at one time suffered imprisonment for many months.


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[Assistant] He finally witnessed for his faith by martyr's death, but the weapons which he prepared


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[Assistant] Have enabled other soldiers to do battle through all the centuries, even to our time.


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[Assistant] Latimer maintained from the pulpit that the Bible ought to be read in the language of the people. The author of holy scripture said he is God himself.


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[Assistant] And this scripture partakes of the might and eternity of its author.


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[Assistant] There is no king, emperor, magistrate, and ruler, but are bound to obey his holy word. Let us not take any bywalks, but let God's word direct us.


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[Assistant] Let us not walk after our forefathers, nor seek not what they did, but what they should have done."


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[Assistant] Hugh Latimer. First sermon preached before King Edward VI.


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[Assistant] The faithful friends of Tyndale arose to defend the truth. The Ridleys and Cranmer followed.


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[Assistant] These leaders in the English Reformation were men of learning, and most of them had been highly esteemed for zeal or piety in the Romish communion.


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[Assistant] Who is the most diligent bishop and prelate in all England? I see you listening and hearkening that I should name him. I will tell you. It is the devil. He is never out of his diocese. Call for him when you will. He is ever at home. He is ever at his plow. You shall never find him idle. I warrant you, where the devil is resident,


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[Assistant] There, away with books, and up with candles, Away with Bibles, and up with beads.


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[Assistant] Away with the light of the gospel and up with the light of candles, yeaah.


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[Assistant] At noondays, down from Christ's cross, up with Purgatory pick purse.


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[Assistant] Away with clothing the naked, the poor, and impotent.


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[Assistant] Up with decking of images and gay garnishing of stocks and stones. Up with man's traditions and his laws.


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[Assistant] Down with God's traditions and His most holy word.


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[Assistant] Oh, that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine as Satan is to sow cockle and Darnell. The grand principle maintained by these reformers


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[Assistant] The same that had been held by the Waldensis, by Wycliffe, by John Huss, by Luther, Zwingli, and those who united with them, was the infallible authority of the Holy Scriptures as a rule of faith and practice.


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[Assistant] They denied the right of popes, councils, fathers, and kings to control the conscience in matters of religion. The Bible was their authority, and by its teaching they tested all doctrines and all claims.


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[Assistant] Faith in God and His Word sustained these holy men as they yielded up their lives at the stake.


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[Assistant] Be of good comfort, exclaimed Latimer to his fellow martyr.


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[Assistant] As the flames were about to silence their voices.


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[Assistant] We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as I trust shall never be put out."


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[Assistant] Works of Hugh Latimer, Volume 1, Page 8.


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[Assistant] In Scotland, the seeds of truth scattered by Columba and his co-laborers had never been wholly destroyed.


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[Assistant] For hundreds of years after the Churches of England submitted to Rome, those of Scotland maintained their freedom. In the 12th century, however, popery became established here, and in no country did it exercise a more absolute sway. Nowhere was the darkness deeper. Still,


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[Assistant] There came rays of light to pierce the gloom and give promise of the coming day.


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[Assistant] Coming from England with the Bible and the teachings of Wycliffe did much to preserve the knowledge of the Gospel.


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[Assistant] Came the writings of Luther and then Tyndale's English New Testament.


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[Assistant] These messengers silently traversed the mountains and valleys


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[Assistant] Kindling into new life the torch of truth so nearly extinguished in Scotland.


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[Assistant] Suddenly awakening to the danger that threatened their cause brought to the stake some of the noblest and most honored of the sons of Scotland. They did but erect a pulpit


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[Assistant] From which the words of these dying witnesses were heard throughout the land.


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[Assistant] With a long line of humbler disciples yielded up their lives at the stake.


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[Assistant] But from the burning pile of wish-art there came one whom the flames were not to silence.


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[Assistant] One who under God was to strike the death knell of popery in Scotland.


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[Assistant] John Knox had turned away from the traditions and mysticisms of the Church to feed upon the truths of God's Word, and the teaching of Wishart had confirmed his determination to forsake the communion of Rome and join himself to the persecuted reformers.


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[Assistant] And it was only after days of seclusion and painful conflict with himself that he consented. But having once accepted the position,


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[Assistant] He pressed forward with inflexible determination and undaunted courage as long as life continued.


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[Assistant] This true-hearted reformer feared not the face of man. The fires of martyrdom blazing around him.


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[Assistant] served only to quicken his zeal to greater intensity.


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[Assistant] With the tyrant's axe held menacingly over his head.


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[Assistant] He stood his ground, striking sturdy blows on the right hand and on the left to demolish idolatry. When brought face to face with the Queen of Scotland,


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[Assistant] In whose presence the zeal of many a leader of the Protestants had abated, John Knox bore unswerving witness for the truth. He was not to be won by caresses. He quailed not before threats. The Queen charged him with heresy.


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[Assistant] He had taught the people to receive a religion prohibited by the state, she declared.


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[Assistant] As right religion took neither original strength nor authority from worldly princes, but from the eternal God alone,


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[Assistant] So are not subjects bound to frame their religion according to the appetites of their princes.


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[Assistant] For oft it is that princes are the most ignorant of all others in God's true religion.


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[Assistant] If all the seed of Abraham had been of the religion of Pharaoh, whose subjects they long were, I pray you, madam, what religion would there have been in the world?


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[Assistant] You may perceive that subjects are not bound to the religion of their princes, albeit they are commanded to give them obedience. Said Mary, you interpret the scriptures in one manner and they, in brackets the Roman Catholic teachers, interpret in another. Whom shall I believe and who shall be judge?


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[Assistant] You shall believe God that plainly speaketh in his word, answered the reformer. And farther than the word teaches you, you neither shall believe the one nor the other. The word of God is plain in itself. And if there appear any obscurity in one place,


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[Assistant] The Holy Ghost, which is never contrary to himself.


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[Assistant] explains the same more clearly in other places so that there can remain no doubt


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[Assistant] The Collected Works of John Knox, volume 2, pages 281 and 284.


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[Assistant] Such were the truths that the fearless reformer at the peril of his life spoke in the ear of royalty. With the same undaunted courage he kept to his purpose


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[Assistant] praying and fighting the battles of the Lord until Scotland was free from potpourri in England.


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[Assistant] The establishment of Protestantism as the national religion diminished but did not wholly stop persecution. While many of the doctrines of Rome had been renounced, not a few of its forms were retained. The supremacy of the Pope was rejected, but in his place


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[Assistant] There was still a wide departure from the purity and simplicity of the gospel. The great principle of religious liberty was not yet understood.


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[Assistant] Though the horrible cruelties which Rome employed against heresy were resorted to but rarely by Protestant rulers.


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[Assistant] And observe the forms of worship prescribed by the established church. Dissenters suffered persecution to a greater or less extent for hundreds of years.


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[Assistant] In the 17th century thousands of pastors were expelled from their positions. The people were forbidden


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[Assistant] On pain of heavy fines, imprisonment and banishment.


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[Assistant] To attend any religious meetings except such as were sanctioned by the church.


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[Assistant] Those faithful souls who could not refrain from gathering to worship God were compelled to meet in dark alleys


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[Assistant] And here laid the foundations of civil and religious liberty.


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[Assistant] persecution turned out to the furtherance of the gospel.


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[Assistant] In a loathsome dungeon crowded with profligates and felons, John Bunyan breathed the very atmosphere of heaven.


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[Assistant] He wrote his wonderful allegory of the pilgrim's journey from the land of destruction to the celestial city.


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[Assistant] For over 200 years that voice from Bedford Jail has spoken with thrilling power to the hearts of men.


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[Assistant] Banyans, pilgrims, progress, and grace abounding to the chief of sinners have guided many feet into the path of life.


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[Assistant] Prescribed and outlawed by the rulers of this world can never perish.


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[Assistant] Flavell's Fountain of Life and Method of Grace.


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[Assistant] has proved a blessing to many who desire a revival of the work of God.


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[Assistant] Whitefield and the Westleys appeared as lightbearers for God.


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[Assistant] Under the rule of the established church, the people of England had lapsed into a state of religious declension, hardly to be distinguished from heathenism.


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[Assistant] Natural religion was the favorite study of the clergy and included most of their theology. The higher classes sneered at piety and prided themselves on being above what they called its fanaticism. The lower classes were grossly ignorant and abandoned to vice.


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[Assistant] While the church had no courage or faith any longer to support the downfallen cause of truth.


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[Assistant] The great doctrine of justification by faith, so clearly taught by Luther, had been almost wholly lost sight of.


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[Assistant] And the Romish principle of trusting to good works for salvation had taken its place. Whitefield and the Westleys, who were members of the established church, were sincere seekers for the favor of God.


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[Assistant] And this they had been taught was to be secured by a virtuous life and an observance of the ordinances of religion. When Charles Wesley at one time fell ill and anticipated that death was approaching,


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[Assistant] As the friend who had put the question seemed not to be fully satisfied with his answer, Wesley thought,


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[Assistant] What? Are not my endeavors a sufficient ground of hope? Would he rob me of my endeavors? I have nothing else to trust to.


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[Assistant] Life of the Reverend Charles Wesley, page 102.


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[Assistant] Such was the dense darkness that had settled down on the church, hiding the atonement, robbing Christ of his glory, and turning the minds of men from their only hope of salvation, the blood of the crucified Redeemer.


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[Assistant] Wesley and his associates were led to see that true religion is seated in the heart.


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[Assistant] By the most diligent and prayerful efforts, they endeavored to subdue the evils of the natural heart. They lived a life of self-denial, charity and humiliation, observing with great rigor and exactness every measure which they thought could be helpful to them in obtaining what they most desired.


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[Assistant] That holiness which could secure the favor of God. But they did not obtain the object which they sought.


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[Assistant] In vain were their endeavors to free themselves from the condemnation of sin, or to break its power.


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[Assistant] Well nigh extinguished upon the altars of Protestantism.


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[Assistant] Protestantism in Bohemia had been trampled out by the hordes of Rome. All who refused to renounce the truth were forced to flee. Some of these, finding refuge in Saxony, there maintained the ancient faith. It was from the descendants of these Christians that light came to Wesley and his associates. John and Charles Wesley,


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[Assistant] After being ordained to the ministry were sent on a mission to America. On board the ship was a company of Moravians. Violent storms were encountered on the passage and John Wesley brought face to face with death.


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[Assistant] Felt that he had not the assurance of peace with God.


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[Assistant] The Germans, on the contrary, manifested a calmness and trust to which he was a stranger.


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[Assistant] I had long before, he says, observed the great seriousness of their behavior.


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[Assistant] of their humility they had given a continual proof.


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[Assistant] By performing those serval offices for the other passengers which none of the English would undertake, for which they desired and would receive no pay,


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[Assistant] saying it was good for their proud hearts and their loving savior had done more for them.


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[Assistant] And every day had given them occasion of showing a meekness which no injury could move. If they were pushed, struck or thrown about,


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[Assistant] They rose again and went away, but no complaint was found in their mouth.


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[Assistant] There was now an opportunity for trying whether they were delivered from the spirit of fear as well as from that of pride, anger, and revenge.


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[Assistant] In the midst of the Psalm wherewith their service began,


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[Assistant] The sea broke over, split the mainsail in pieces, covered the ship and poured in between the decks as if the great deep had already swallowed us up. A terrible screaming began among the English. The Germans calmly sang on. I asked one of them afterwards, were you not afraid? He answered, I thank God, no. I asked, but were not your women and children afraid?


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[Assistant] No, our women and children are not afraid to die. Close quote.


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[Assistant] Whitehead, Life of the Reverend John Wesley, page 10. Upon arriving in Savannah,


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[Assistant] In striking contrast to the lifeless formalism of the Church of England, he wrote,


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[Assistant] The great simplicity as well as solemnity of the whole.


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[Assistant] Almost made me forget the 1700 years between


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[Assistant] And imagine myself in one of those assemblies where form and state were not.


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[Assistant] But Paul the tentmaker or Peter the fisherman presided yet with the demonstration of the spirit and of power.


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[Assistant] Close quote. Whitehead, pages 11 and 12.


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[Assistant] Wesley, under the instruction of a Moravian preacher, arrived at a clearer understanding of Bible faith.


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[Assistant] He was convinced that he must renounce all dependence upon his own works for salvation and must trust holy to the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. At a meeting of the Moravian Society in London, a statement was read from Luther


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[Assistant] Describing the change which the Spirit of God works in the heart of the believer. As Wesley listened, faith was kindled in his soul.


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[Assistant] I felt my heart strangely warmed, he says. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation.


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[Assistant] And an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine.


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[Assistant] And saved me from the law of sin and death. Close quote. Whitehead, page 52.


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[Assistant] Through long years of wearisome and comfortless driving, years of rigorous self-denial, of reproach and humiliation, Wesley had steadfastly adhered to his one purpose of seeking God. Now he had found him.


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[Assistant] And he found that the grace which he had toiled to win by prayers and fasts, by alms, deeds, and self-abnegation,


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[Assistant] Was a gift, without money and without price.


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[Assistant] Once established in the faith of Christ, his whole soul burned with the desire to spread everywhere a knowledge of the glorious gospel of God's free grace.


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[Assistant] I look upon all the world as my parish, he said. In whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty to declare unto all that are willing to hear


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[Assistant] Not now as the ground, but the result of faith. Not the root, but the fruit of holiness.


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[Assistant] The grace of God in Christ is the foundation of the Christian's hope. And that grace will be manifested in obedience.


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[Assistant] Westley's life was devoted to the preaching of the great truths which he had received, justification through faith in the atoning blood of Christ and the renewing power of the Holy Spirit upon the heart, bringing forth fruit in a life conformed to the example of Christ. Whitefield and the Westleys had been prepared for their work


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[Assistant] by long and sharp personal convictions of their own lost condition


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[Assistant] And that they might be able to endure hardness as good soldiers of Christ, they had been subjected to the fiery ordeal of scorn, derision and persecution, both in the university and as they were entering the ministry.


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[Assistant] They and a few others who sympathized with them were contemptuously called Methodists by their ungodly fellow students.


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[Assistant] A name which is at the present time regarded as honorable by one of the largest denominations in England and America. As members of the Church of England, they were strongly attached to her forms of worship.


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[Assistant] But the Lord had presented before them in His word a higher standard.


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[Assistant] The Holy Spirit urged them to preach Christ and Him crucified. The power of the highest attended their labors. Thousands were convicted and truly converted.


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[Assistant] It was necessary that these sheep be protected from ravening wolves.


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[Assistant] Wesley had no thought of forming a new denomination.


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[Assistant] But he organized them under what was called the Methodist connection.


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[Assistant] Mysterious in trying was the opposition which these preachers encountered from the established church. Yet God, in His wisdom,


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[Assistant] And labored within the pale of the church wherever they could find opportunity. The truth had an entrance where the doors would otherwise have remained closed.


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[Assistant] Some of the clergy were roused from their moral stupor and became zealous preachers in their own parishes.


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[Assistant] Churches that had been petrified by formalism were quickened into life.


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[Assistant] In Wesley's time, as in all ages of the Church's history, many different gifts performed their appointed work. They did not harmonize upon every point of doctrine,


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[Assistant] But all were moved by the Spirit of God and united in the absorbing aim to win souls to Christ.


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[Assistant] The differences between Whitefield and the Westleys threatened at one time to create alienation.


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[Assistant] But as they learned meekness in the school of Christ, mutual forbearance and charity reconciled them. They had no time to dispute.


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[Assistant] While error and iniquity were teeming everywhere and sinners were going down to ruin.


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[Assistant] The servants of God trod a rugged path.


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[Assistant] Men of influence and learning employed their powers against them.


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[Assistant] After a time many of the clergy manifested determined hostility.


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[Assistant] And the doors of the churches were closed against a pure faith and those who proclaimed it.


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[Assistant] The course of the clergy in denouncing them from the pulpit


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[Assistant] An angel in human form came to his side. The mob fell back.


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[Assistant] And the servant of Christ passed in safety from the place of danger.


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[Assistant] of his deliverance from the enraged mob on one of these occasions, Wesley said


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[Assistant] Many endeavored to throw me down while we were going downhill on a slippery path to the town, as well judging that, if I was once on the ground, I should hardly rise any more.


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[Assistant] But I made no stumble at all, nor the least slip, till I was entirely out of their hands.


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[Assistant] Although many strove to lay hold on my collar or clothes to pull me down, they could not fasten at all.


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[Assistant] Only one got fast hold of the flap of my waistcoat which was soon left in his hand. The other flap, in the pocket of which was a blank note, was torn but half off.


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[Assistant] A lusty man just behind struck at me several times with a large oaken stick.


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[Assistant] With which if he had struck me once in the back part of my head, it would have saved him all further trouble.


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[Assistant] But every time the blow was turned aside, I know not how, for I could not move to the right hand or left.


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[Assistant] Another came rushing through the press and raising his arm to strike on a sudden let it drop and only stroked my head saying what soft hair he has.


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[Assistant] The very first men whose hearts were turned were the heroes of the town, the captains of the rabble on all occasions, one of them having been a prize fighter at the Bear Gardens.


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[Assistant] One before we came into the town, and one after we were gone out. But both were as nothing.


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[Assistant] For though one man struck me on the breast with all his might,


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[Assistant] The Methodists of those early days, people as well as preachers, endured ridicule and persecution, alike from church members and from the openly irreligious, who were inflamed by their misrepresentations.


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[Assistant] They were arraigned before courts of justice, such only in name, for justice was rare in the courts of that time. Often they suffered violence from their persecutors.


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[Assistant] Calling upon those who desire to assist in breaking the windows and robbing the houses of the Methodists to assemble at a given time and place.


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[Assistant] These open violations of both human and divine law were allowed to pass without a reprimand.


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[Assistant] A systematic persecution was carried on against a people whose only fault.


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[Assistant] was that of seeking to turn the feet of sinners from the path of destruction to the path of holiness.


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[Assistant] said John Wesley, referring to the charges against him and his associates,


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[Assistant] Some allege that the doctrines of these men are false, erroneous and enthusiastic.


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[Assistant] That they are new and unheard of till of late. That they are Quakerism, Fanaticism, Popery.


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[Assistant] This whole pretense has been already cut up by the roots.


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[Assistant] It having been shown at large that every branch of this doctrine is the plain doctrine of scripture interpreted by our own church.


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[Assistant] Therefore it cannot be either false or erroneous provided the scripture be true. Others allege their doctrine is too strict. They make the way to heaven too narrow. And this is in truth, the original objection.


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[Assistant] As it was almost the only one for some time.


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[Assistant] And is secretly at the bottom of a thousand more which appear in various forms. But do they make the way to heaven any narrower than our Lord and His apostles made it? Is their doctrine stricter than that of the Bible? Consider only a few plain texts.


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[Assistant] Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy mind, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength. For every idle word which men shall speak, they shall give an account on the day of judgment. Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. If their doctrine is stricter than this, they are to blame. But you know in your conscience it is not.


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[Assistant] And who can be one jot less strict without corrupting the word of God?


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[Assistant] Can any steward of the mysteries of God be found faithful?


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[Assistant] I may not bring down the scripture to your taste. You must come up to it or perish forever.


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[Assistant] This is the real ground of that other popular cry concerning the uncharitableness of these men. Uncharitable, are they? In what respect? Do they not feed the hungry and clothe the naked? No, that is not the thing. They are not wanting in this, but they are so uncharitable in judging


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[Assistant] The spiritual declension which had been manifest in England just before the time of Wesley was in great degree the result of antinomian teaching. Many affirmed that Christ had abolished the moral law.


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[Assistant] Declared that it was unnecessary for ministers to exhort the people to obedience of its precepts.


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[Assistant] Be led to the practice of piety and virtue.


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[Assistant] While those who were doomed to eternal reprobation quote,


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[Assistant] Did not have power to obey the divine law."


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[Assistant] Others also holding that the elect cannot fall from grace nor forfeit the divine favor.


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[Assistant] Arrived at the still more hideous conclusion that quote,


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[Assistant] The wicked actions they commit are not really sinful.


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[Assistant] Therefore they declared that even one of the vilest sins, quote,


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[Assistant] Considered universally an enormous violation of the divine law is not a sin in the sight of God if committed by one of the elect.