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For unto you is Paradise opened, the Tree of Life is planted, the time to come is prepared, plenteousness is made ready, a city is built, and rest is allowed, yea, perfect goodness and wisdom.
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The root of evil is sealed up from you, weakness and the moth is hid from you, and corruption is fled into hell to be forgotten;
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sorrows have passed, and in the end is shown the treasure of immortality.
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"And therefore ask thou no more questions concerning the multitude of them that perish.
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For when they had taken liberty, they despised the Most High, thought scorn of His law, and forsook His ways.
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Moreover they have trodden down His righteous,
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and said in their heart that there is no God; yea, and that, knowing they must die.
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For as the things spoken of shalt receive you, so thirst and pain are prepared for them. For it was not His will that men should come to nought,
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but they that are created have defiled the name of Him that made them, and were unthankful unto Him that prepared life for them.
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And therefore is My judgment now at hand.
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These things have I not shown unto all men, but unto thee and a few like thee." Then answered I and said,