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What
does he expect who is unwilling to remember in his conscience the
gentle precepts of the ordaining Lord and all the sufferings he underwent
on men's behalf, because he wished that we might won the abode of
heaven in everlastingness? So it will be a sad thing on that grim
day of the great judgement for him who, seduced by sins, has to gaze
upon the Lord's scars, the woundings and the torture. In their wicked
spirits they will see the greatest of griefs - how that same King
out of his gentle heart loosed them from sins with his body, so that
they might live free from evil deeds and own the everlasting splendour
of glory. For this patrimony they expressed thanks to their Ruler
not at all: to their reproach therefore, unhappy people, they will
behold those conspicuous marks upon God, when Christ sits upon his
royal throne, upon the high seat, God of the heavenly hosts, Father
almighty. To each one of the people the radiant Creator, Ruler of
the skies, will prescribe according to his deeds, all according to
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