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I answered then and said, This is my first and last saying, that it had been better not to have given the earth unto Adam: or else, when it was given him, to have restrained him from sinning.
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Intemperance is at an end, infidelity is cut off, righteousness is grown, and truth is sprung up.
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Then shall no man be able to save him that is destroyed, nor to oppress him that hath gotten the victory.
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I answered then and said, This is my first and last saying, that it had been better not to have given the earth unto Adam: or else, when it was given him, to have restrained him from sinning.
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For what profit is it for men now in this present time to live in heaviness, and after death to look for punishment?
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O thou Adam, what hast thou done? for though it was thou that sinned, thou art not fallen alone, but we all that come of thee.