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For this is the life whereof Moses spoke unto the people while he lived, saying, `Choose thee life, that thou mayest live!'
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Nevertheless they believed not him, nor yet the prophets after him, no, nor me, who have spoken unto them,
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that there should not be such heaviness in their destruction as shall be joy over them that are persuaded to salvation."
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I answered then and said, "I know, lord, that the Most High is called merciful, in that He hath mercy upon those who have not yet come into the world,
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and upon those also who turn to His law;
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and that He is patient and long suffereth those who have sinned, as His creatures,
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and that He is bountiful, for He is ready to give where it needeth;
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and that He is of great mercy, for He multiplieth more and more mercies to those who are present and who are past, and also to those who are to come.
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For if He shall not multiply His mercies, the world would not continue with those who inherit therein.
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And He pardoneth; for if He did not so of His goodness, that those who have committed iniquities might be eased of them, a ten-thousandth part of men should not remain living.
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And being judge, if He should not forgive those who are cured with His word and put out the multitude of contentions,